I’d like to invite you all to share your thoughts and ideas about Lemmy. This feedback thread is a great place to do that, as it allows for easier discussions than Github thanks to the tree-like comment structure. This is also where the community is at.

Here’s how you can participate:

  • Post one top-level comment per complaint or suggestion about Lemmy.
  • Reply to comments with your own ideas or links to Github issues related to the complaints.
  • Be specific and constructive. Avoid vague wishes and focus on specific issues that can be fixed.
  • This thread is a chance for us to not only identify the biggest pain points but also work together to find the best solutions.

By creating this periodic post, we can:

  • Track progress on issues raised in previous threads.
  • See how many issues have been resolved over time.
  • Gauge whether the developers are responsive to user feedback.

Your input may be valuable in helping prioritize development efforts and ensuring that Lemmy continues to meet the needs of its community. Let’s work together to make Lemmy even better!

  • m_f@midwest.socialEnglish
    451·
    2 months ago

    It would be nice if communities that are similar enough could “share” a comment thread, so you don’t end up with comments scattered over many different communities for the same link. The mods could toggle something in the settings and say “This other community is good and we’ll be OK sharing posts with them”. You also wouldn’t have to explicitly crosspost.

  • shyguyblue@lemmy.worldEnglish
    371·
    2 months ago

    There’s got to be a better way to do cross posts. When people/bots crosspost, my “All” feed gets cluttered with multiple copies of the same post. Maybe something like a drop-down showing all the instances and communities it’s posted to.

    Edited to fix autocorrect…

    • simple@lemm.eeEnglish
      18·
      2 months ago

      I don’t know if this was requested before but I really want there to be a way to see all comments throughout crossposted threads. It sucks that there are so many crossposts that have like 1-2 comments each. I want to see all discussion about a post at the same time.

    • m_f@midwest.socialEnglish
      12·
      2 months ago

      Some apps will collapse those into a single post, but not all of them, and not all the time. It would be nice if that were better.

    • PumpkinDrama@reddthat.comOPEnglish
      91·
      2 months ago

      Dynamic Linking System:

      • A system that automatically links related posts across different communities and instances.
      • Allow users to see all related discussions in one place, regardless of where they were originally posted.
  • Hubi@feddit.orgEnglish
    36·
    2 months ago

    I’ve used Lemmy for a while and just recently felt like I was missing a feature for the first time: I’d love if there was some kind of mod mail functionality. One of my posts was removed by a moderator and I wanted to ask why, but I obviously didn’t know which mod did it, so I just randomly messaged someone from the list. There should be a more “elegant” way to do this, like some kind of functionality that allows a user to send a message directly to the community or the moderation team itself.

  • infeeeee@lemm.eeEnglish
    26·
    2 months ago

    Option for default comment sorting. you can change the default sort only for posts, but not for comments, comments always sorted by Hot, and you have to manually change it each time you open comments.

    In Voyager you can set this up, but it would be useful in the webui as well.

    • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      Every day for the last 15 months I have been hitting Top on every. single. post. Every day I hope that tomorrow will be the day this completely obvious missing feature has been added.

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      On a related note, threads ought to be able to have the default sorting changed at least by a mod, if not by the user who posted them. For example, the recent hurricane megathreads ought to have been defaulting to sorting by new.

  • m_f@midwest.socialEnglish
    24·
    2 months ago

    It would be nice if there was a way to handle instance/user migrations. If an instance gets their domain name taken away, there’s no way AFAIK for the admin to say “Here’s our new location, with a verifiable signature”. Likewise there’s no way for a user AFAIK to move their account with a verifiable signature that the new one is still them. Ideally this could all happen automatically with signatures getting synced automatically and all that.

    I’m sure it would be a lot of work and no idea if ActivityPub would get in the way, but it would give people a lot more assurance that they didn’t pick a server that will screw them over by going down.

    • SorteKanin@feddit.dkEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      no idea if ActivityPub would get in the way

      It totally would. In ActivityPub, all objects (like users and posts) have an identifier that includes the domain name. For instance, your ID is https://midwest.social/u/m_f. That’s what identifies your user. There is no way to change an ID - the point of an ID is after all that it stays the same and still refers to the same entity. This is a pretty serious limitation of ActivityPub right now unfortunately.

      • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        I wonder who was the idiot who made a persistent ID for identity reliant on a third party factor that can be trivially taken away.

        Any plans for solving it that are known?

        • SorteKanin@feddit.dkEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          Not as far as I am aware - I don’t think you can really fix it within the protocol, i.e. without a breaking change. Then you may as well make a new protocol.

      • TheFederatedPipe@fedia.io
        1·
        2 months ago

        I think there’s a FEP that could (or fixes) this. To my understanding ID can be any URI, so there are better ways. I guess it’s hard because it would brake a lot of stuff or how mastodon is build.

        • SorteKanin@feddit.dkEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          Any FEP trying to fix this will be incompatible with existing instances, so I don’t really see how it’s gonna work.

          • TheFederatedPipe@fedia.io
            2·
            2 months ago

            Yeah, it sucks. But I think that at a certain point it will need to happen if we want to make ActivityPub better with better portability.

  • PumpkinDrama@reddthat.comOPEnglish
    251·
    2 months ago

    My biggest issue is that when I post, I’m torn between sharing in the community of the largest instance or in the instance I prefer the most. Posting in the largest instance offers more visibility for my post, but it feels like I’m not supporting the instance I truly like. The communities are too fragmented.

  • nocturne@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    22·
    2 months ago

    A mute community in addition to block community. There are communities i may not want to see in my feed, but I might want to look at them. Currently my only option is to block and then offi want to check them out i have to unblock.

    • OpenStarsEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      One thing you can do there is to take advantage of federation and jump to an instance where you are not logged in, which will then display all of the comments. On the web UI, the multicolored Fediverse icon works fantastic for this purpose, as it will jump straight to the comment that you want to see (although the hidden ones would be below that, or perhaps you would rather go to the post itself).

      e.g. for me, I am reading your comment at https://discuss.online/post/12642239/11643668, but the multicolored button would take me to https://sopuli.xyz/comment/12447782, which I do not have an account on hence nothing under that would be blocked for me there.

      • nocturne@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        Yes, that will allow me to read the community, it will not allow me to interact/post/reply.

        • OpenStarsEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          Oh absolutely that is correct - once you’ve “blocked” something, you cannot then interact with it later, as it is a rather hard cutoff. I suppose you want to see something like a “remove from my feed” - basically a “hide this community from me until I want it” - rather than an actual, full-on “block”. Which is notable then that e.g. a user block of an instance is even softer than that, allowing you to see and reply and receive replies from people (though you don’t get notifications for those, unless they specifically tag your username). So community blocks are harder than people would like, and instance ones are softer, so they really aren’t hitting the sweet spot in-between.:-)

          Yes, I suppose I want that too - a “community hide” option, rather than full community block:-).

            • OpenStarsEnglish
              2·
              2 months ago

              Hopefully they’ll work on stuff like this - but I don’t know their prioritization.

  • Handles@leminal.spaceEnglish
    14·
    2 months ago

    I will suggest filtering, by term and by source URL. I think it would help customize individual feeds, making it easier and perhaps more comfortable navigating the news.

    Example A: term filtering: This should be fairly obvious. Say I’m a Linux user who could care less about KDE. But people keep gushing over it in the Linux subs I subscribe to, and the damn developers keep pushing new releases that also get posted. Argh! Filter out posts (maybe even comments) that mention KDE, Bob’s your uncle. And I can still enjoy all those delicious GNOME posts. Definitely not a real world inspired scenario.

    Example B: URL filtering: Simply(!) filtering out link posts by source URL. Not a fan of Fox News and/or WaPo? Filter out one site or the other by root URL, like *.foxnews.com or *.washingtonpost.com. Me, I’d gladly filter out all and any YouTube links unseen by default. That’s a constant noise generator I could genuinely live without. But I digress.

    I hope the examples illustrate my point because I could clearly never explain a feature request succinctly nor to the point.

    • PumpkinDrama@reddthat.comOPEnglish
      41·
      2 months ago

      Reminds me of Custom Feeds

      • Inspired by Firefish’s Antennas feature
      • Similar to Reddit’s multireddit functionality
      • Follow specific users, communities, and instances
      • Include/exclude tags or keywords
      • Choose post types (posts, comments, or both)
      • Set custom feeds as default
      • Handles@leminal.spaceEnglish
        4·
        2 months ago

        Yeah, more or less right. On Mastodon I’m a heavy filter user, so loads of terms and hashtags just GTFO. I don’t see anything near that capability baked into Lemmy.

        And I have to say, the more I think about it, the more important link source filtering is. Given how many posts are links to external sites I think it would be a great feature to sift out the chaff before you even have the chance to roll your eyes at it!

  • d00phy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    2 months ago

    I don’t see it mentioned, so maybe it’s not a popular thing, but the ability to tag a post. Often time this can be annoying, but it can help in filtering posts in certain types of communities.

      • d00phy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        2 months ago

        Serves me right for typing w/o my glasses on! I guess there could be a fun answer to what “raging a post” might entail, but I can’t think of one. Corrected.

  • fubarx@lemmy.mlEnglish
    12·
    2 months ago

    Show saved items in order they were saved, not original post date. If I come across and save something from 6 months ago, when I go back into saved items, it’s sorted way back i stead of being the first item in the sort list.

    This was supposed to be fixed in a server update, but doesn’t seem to be.

  • Juniper (she/her) 🫐@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    11·
    2 months ago

    Actual functional user blocking. I don’t want users being able to see my comments and reply to them when I have blocked them and I was totally surprised when they did.

      • Juniper (she/her) 🫐@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        Yep, and it wouldn’t be very far back in my history if you want to see it. My last comment in that convo started with “ugh”. I was talking about transgender issues with someone who was extremely argumentative and kept strawmanning my beliefs so I told them in no uncertain terms that I was done with the conversation and blocked them. Later I decided to unblock them and discovered that they had replied not only to that final comment continuing to tell me I’m a bad person for their strawman interpretation of what I said, but to another comment I made in a different thread.

        So this person who is actively insulting me also has the ability to follow me around and continue insulting me, and blocking them just makes me unable to defend myself.

        • P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
          41·
          2 months ago

          Did not read the entire thing, but I see that you were arguing with a Hexbear user. Here’s my tip for you: don’t try to get on trouble with people from hexbear.net, lemmy.ml, and lemmygrad.ml. I don’t want to generalise these instances, but there certainly are many delusional people around there. Stay safe.

          • Juniper (she/her) 🫐@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            2·
            2 months ago

            I know about Hexbear and wanted to mention that it was a Hexbear user but this ironically happened just a moment after I made my own Hexbear account. I know some of the users there are extreme, particularly that user, but the community overall I find worth it.

            That said I have to wonder what you mean when you say to avoid getting in trouble and to stay safe. Is there a history of people being harassed or harmed by those groups?

            • P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
              1·
              2 months ago

              Yes, there actually is. Two examples that I can give on top of my head is one user who allegedly still gets some messages by someone complaining in a comment they made many months ago, on a chapotraphouse post, and there’s also the Fediseer page, that shows the instances that censored Hexbear and their reasons to why, which include harassments.

  • masquenox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    111·
    2 months ago

    I would love to be given a few minutes worth of grace to edit some minor spelling and/or grammar mistakes once I’ve hit the “post” button.