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Often, its asked what the fediverse or lemmy needs more of in terms of content, but are there any specific features or functionality you really feel are lacking?

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[–] nucleative@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Comment type taxonomy:

-funny -informative -offtopic -redundant

Etc

Voters can select a category

Now I can browse in serious mode, funny mode, etc

[–] everett@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

Found the Slashdotter.

[–] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The obvious one, tags and flairs

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[–] eatthecake@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Block community in the 3 dots menu. No I don't know what that's called. I'm using firefox if that helps. I don't want an app thank you.

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 3 points 2 days ago

The "3 dots" menu is sometimes referred to as a "kebab menu" if the dots are vertical and a "meatballs menu" if the dots are horizontal. I think it's weird, but I have heard it used in instructional videos before.

https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/k/kebab-menu.htm

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[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Add technical depth by allowing communities to select a default "sort by most recent comment" like a forum. This is the key difference between ADHD content that focuses on time versus forums that focus on depth. Then find a way to integrate these deep threads into the Allfeed. Bridge the gap between forums with depth and PITA user names versus link aggregators with ADHD but recent info and broad scope.

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[–] fart_pickle@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

Filter posts based on a keywords from the title/content.

[–] mexicanmamba@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I love the Old Lemmy webiste, I wish there was a way to incorporate a RES type of extension for Lemmy

[–] tal@lemmy.today 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I mean, it's doable now, but I think that the limiting factor is just the userbase. More developers using the platform, more people interested in writing code for browser extensions.

There is a lemmy/kbin assistant extension for Firefox, which is far, far more basic than RES, but provides one critical feature that I regularly use -- being able to view a post on one's home instance. So people have done work on these.

Also, if by "Old Lemmy", you mean mlmym, that's not merely the website. It's an alternate Web UI that instances can run alongside the regular one. My home instance does so at https://old.lemmy.today/

EDIT: Your home instance does as well, at https://old.lemmy.world/

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago
  • Ability to see and export the posts and comments I upvoted and downvoted
  • Polls with configurable restrictions (ex: only allow subscribed members of the community to vote from the date the poll was published, single-choice or multiple choices, restricted to local instance)
  • Tags for posts and users inside a community
  • Have a table for rules, and have those rules show up when creating a report
  • A lemmy:// (or fediverse://) protocol, to make linking content, users, communities, etc more universal across instances, apps, etc
[–] aaaa@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I've said before, but part of my biggest gripe with Lemmy is the process of curating a decent feed. A lot of new users will see the mess of posts in All, including political extremists, an ever growing list of fetish porn communities, and bottom of the barrel shitposts, and they won't be interested in spending a couple hours blocking and subscribing to things before the feed is usable.

One way to address this is to give instance admins better tools to curate a default subscriptions and block list for their users. Allow admins to create what they think is the most accessible feed, but also allow users to customize it as they see fit.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 2 days ago

I whitelist rather than blacklist. I browse Subscribed normally. I think that under the existing system, that's the only realistic way to scale. Hit lemmyverse.net or similar periodically to look for new, interesting communities, but the whole thing is gonna be a firehose.

I do understand that BlueSky has some sort of "curated lists" feature that sounds interesting, and I've thrown around some ideas around having curation decoupled from community/instance bans and global voting.

[–] nnullzz@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

Post title translations.

[–] technomad@slrpnk.net 6 points 3 days ago

Save post as draft

[–] rothaine@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] tal@lemmy.today 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

What would that involve? I mean, you can already have spoiler sections in post body text.

[–] rothaine@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago

Basically nsfw but spoiler instead. Clients would hide/blur images, thumbnails, and body text.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

can you mark the image as spoiler?

[–] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Not the primary image, though I'd bet that you can stick an image inline in the body in spoiler text. You couldn't get a thumbnail then, but I think that might be undesirable anyway if you're wanting to hide the image by default.

EDIT:

test

1000007395

Looks like it.

[–] WhyFlip@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Make it easier to join.

Ability to search Saved Posts, and RSS for them too like Reddit has.

I save a lot of handy things on Lemmy but it’s really difficult to find them again later. It also seems to sort by original post creation date instead of when I saved them so this makes it even more difficult to find later.

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