What is something lemmy can improve upon?

I would like to see recommendations for communities based on my communities. It's not trivial to solve, but discoverability isn't great right now.

Split NSFW into NSFW and NSFL.

An option to view all comments from crossposts when browsing a post. It's annoying how you can see a post that's been crossposted 5 times and wonder where the comments are.

Cross instance post/comment deletion.

Sometimes I just don't want my comments to live forever and deleting shouldn't be impossible.

• Reports categories based on both the community, the instance of the community + the user to reduce report noise between mod actions and admin actions.

• Post tags, to label content within a community.

• Better language support, clearly indicating which ones are allowed when submitting something in the language dropdown, as well as basic language detection support.

• When the instance is using pictrs, add a section in the user's settings to see all the uploaded pictures in that account, with the ability to delete any of them.

• Better accessibility / a11y support for uploaded images with alt-text.

• Support for svg-based emojis

• For mods, the ability to make a pinned post made by one of the mods editable by other mods, which would be useful for FAQs, etc.

• The ability to subscribe/follow a specific user, not just communities.

• Passkeys support as a 2FA method.

• Some basic builtin automod action, such as blocking known keywords from spammers from being posted, not just showing as removed as when using the slur filter in the admin settings.

EDIT: Something I just thought of

• A URI protocol handler to refer to communities, users, post and comments in an instance-independant way (ie: lemmy://u/mp3@lemmy.ca, lemmy://c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml, lemmy://c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml/p/1234567) or another syntax that makes more sense. That way you could let the OS redirect the query to the software of your choice, and define your home instance there.

Now there are some issues to figure out before defining the URI handler, like how to refer to a post or comment that will redirect to the appropriate one on your home instance since post and comment currently have a unique ID on each instance, which makes them hard to directly address without doing some kind of conversion.

The ability to see all the communities if you search them up without having to find it via lemmyverse.net and inserting the specific fedi url to the search bar. It's a crucial thing for an average Joe, no matter it's due to how the fedi protocol works.

Guessing fixing child porn propagation isn't the highest priority?

Make it easier for server admins to connect/link to the child porn hash databases, scripts for autobans + deletion of any content, flagging + notify to other servers etc.

Honestly I feel like Lenny needs flairs more than anything

Moderation tools. They need to drop literally everything else they are working on and build robust moderation tools for community owners. Nothing else matters more than this.

Allow communities that contain the same content but exist on different instances to show each others content as if they were one community.

There NEEDS to be an account migration option, with not only settings but also my saved posts and comments, own posts and comments etc. If not possible, at least allow an export in the style of a gddpr dump from the likes of facebook etc. to allow import at a later time when implemented.

My instance is shutting down at the end of the month (~500 users) and there is no good way to export my data. I would not be surprised if some of the 500 get frustrated and stop with lemmy.

In-line translation features for non-English communities (in my case) would be very helpful and would exceed Reddit functionality, which is something I think Lemmy should strive toward

I'd like to see more instances with 100-500 users.

I know that's a community thing, more than a Lemmy thing. I just don't feel like I have a wealth of choices. I'm still on lemmy.world and when I look around, I don't see a lot of medium-sized instances to migrate to.

Here is a hopefully minor thing...

Reddit has multireddits where you can have a few that follows a certain selection of subreddits under a label. You can have multiple ones defined as well. Therefore, you can have a view for all things news (following multiple news things) without having to view those things on your main home feed (as well as any other defined topics that you can think of).

It would be nifty if such a thing could exist inside of Lemmy as well.

Not sure if this is Lemmy or the app I use, but I would like my saved content to appear in the order it was saved. It sucks when I save something old and am unable to find it when I look at my saved items.

Brigaders.

People with like 10 accounts that upvote themselves/downvote dissent.

Permanently Deleted

Users that want to talk about tv shows that I watch and more places to do so

I need a proper controversial sort option. I want to know where the juice is.

Duplicate posts in my feed

Sort by two filters at once (top this day, controversial this week, ...)

Controversial and others are literally useless, its always the same posts

Where’s the multi-lemmies support

Saving is broken.

When showing a saved post or comment, show them in order of save instead of original post date. If I save an article, go to find it the next day, it's not there. Turns out it was sorted under 6mos ago when it was originally posted.

I'd love to have to specifically choose for my comment to have the mod flair rather than it always be present.

a huge chunk of content is based around video nowadays. so i would like to see video support

I would like to be able to more effectively filter posts of languages i can’t understand. Using memmy i have been trying to filter posts by key word and entering common words in every language, but it’s not changed how much i scroll past, and it’s hard to determine if it’s effective at all.

Not a technical thing, but...

Better user interactions. I know not everyone came from reddit, but there are so many reddit-like interactions across Lemmy. I'm talking about not assuming good faith and jumping down people's throats. Low-effort comments (I'm guilty of this, too). The need to always be right and continue arguing for no reason.

It was tiring to see this on reddit over the years. But it's sad to see how much of that behavior has made its way to Lemmy.

With federation, however, there's not really a good way to solve this, since each instance, including self-hosted instances, determines their own moderation and "culture." But it would be something I'd like to see improved, even i we each have to do it ourselves.

On the technical side, absolutely mod tools. It's stunning how bad they are here. And I'm coming from reddit, where tools were poor.

Better default UI and general refinement

Some system to make sure communities are on sync.

I would like the ability for people to mod communities outside their instance.

Allow multiple groups per post (use them like tags). This would have some interesting implications regarding moderation and the handling of replies to the said post.

Having multiple identical posts in different groups with distributed replies doesn't feel ideal to me.

Being able to block entire instances from your feed, without defederating.

I want a 'disable inbox replies' equivalent

Multiredditscommunities

Sometimes when I've found new communities on non local instances I'm unable to subscribe directly and I get a screen where it asks me what instance I'm subscribing from and when I click the only suggestion "lemmy.world" it doesn't recognize it as valid. I know you can subscribe to these communities in distant instances by using the local search bar with an exclamation point in front of it but it's a convoluted process and could be streamlined.

Some kind of a chatroom integrated into the forum ?(might be a bad idea don't sue me . ) for stupid fun and close connections like it could be really barebones with only basic functionality i just think it could be fun.

On the mobile website when I tap the link into a post, read it and then hit the back button, I often end up on the page before the one I clicked into the link from, so like, I have to scroll to the bottom of the page and hit next and scroll down again to see the same link I originally clicked. Sometimes when this happens the "subscribed/local/all" and "new/hot/controversial" dialogs are reset as well and I've lost my spot in the feed entirely.

This doesn't emulate the presumed intended functionality of reddit feeds where if you hit back you are at the exact spot in the feed where you clicked the original link.

Speed, a lot. Loading the profile for some reason takes forever for me, this "user not authenticated"

It would be nice if I was not logged out every few hours when browsing on iOS (safari). It’s annoying and I often just read threads logged out, then get sad when I can’t upvote without scrolling to the top to log in again.

Is there a way to watch old threads? I want to tag an empty discussion, get notifications when it becomes active (maybe digest mode to avoid spam)

I have FOMO on good content that isn't active yet.

Is this already a thing? FYI using sync app most of the time.

The steam engine.

Brainstorm phase, go:

I've looked. I find it hard to believe that there's no California or SF Bay instances, but I haven't found anything.

Its private messaging feature.

Less jeanposting

Accountability and transparency in moderation. You aren't even made aware when you're banned from a place, you have to go out of your way to see and even then you have zero recourse in changing the decision if it was made in error. It's even worse when you get banned from your instance because it's just suddenly you can't log in and you don't even know why. You can't even transfer to a new instance. Pretty shit for something that can be done on the whim of a single person.

Somewhat related, as Lemmy continues to balkanize between pro-fascist instances (such as lemmy world, sh.ithole, and beehaw) and those explicitly against it (lemmy ml, lemmygrad, hexbear) the only way for users to opt out of interacting with users from those instances is to get yourself banned from the instance itself. I don't mince words and have a zero-tolerance policy for injustice so it's not hard for a person like me to catch those bans, but that's hardly ideal for the federation as a whole to have to rely on something they can't control in order to have a tolerable experience not constantly marred by some of the shittiest harassing assholes the federation has to offer.

EDIT: Maybe outright comment blocking on instances is a bit much, but absolutely auto-hide should be a thing.

A new Heathcliff community setup, to house all Heathcliff or Heathcliff adjacent content.

I would be so happy ; -)

I wonder if down votes should be lightly nerfed. The idea would be to make it easier for people to post mildly unpopular opinions in hopes of furthering discussions and weakening brigading. I imagine there are a lot of people who comment once, get downvoted and then either never comment again, or only comment in ways that are safe and appeal to the community’s biases and sense of humor.

Something like requiring 10 downvotes to drop from 1 to 0.

Oh, it would also discourage spite downvoting since it would be hard for any one user to push a persons comment to 0.

For a technology which was born because of petty censorship on Reddit, the main Lemmy instance sure does do a lot of petty censorship.

The way it treats Christians in general?

Remove the ability to post images

I need avatar builder like Reddit's avatar builder

Developers who actually give a shit about what the users want and need.