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
    32·
    17 days 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.

    • PumpkinDrama@reddthat.comOPEnglish
      9·
      17 days ago

      User-Driven Linking:

      • Allow users to suggest links between related posts, with a voting system to confirm relevance.
      • Create a “Related Discussions” section for each post, populated by user suggestions.
    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      17 days ago

      I want something like that too, although it’s worth noting that the implementation corner-case details could be horrendous.

  • shyguyblue@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    17 days 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
      10·
      17 days 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
      8·
      17 days 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
      5·
      17 days 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
    21·
    17 days 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.

  • PumpkinDrama@reddthat.comOPEnglish
    17·
    17 days 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.

  • m_f@midwest.socialEnglish
    16·
    17 days 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·
      17 days 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·
        13 days 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·
          13 days 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.

  • infeeeee@lemm.eeEnglish
    15·
    17 days 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
      3·
      16 days 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
      3·
      17 days 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.

  • nocturne@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    15·
    17 days 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.

  • d00phy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    17 days 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
        2·
        17 days 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.

  • PumpkinDrama@reddthat.comOPEnglish
    8·
    17 days ago

    There were several issues on GitHub regarding proposals on how to solve the low visibility of small instances. However, after the Scaled Sort was implemented, all those issues were closed, yet the problem persists. I continue to use Reddit the same as before because I primarily used it for niche communities, which are lacking here. The few times I’ve posted to a niche community here, I’ve either received no answers or been subject to drive-by downvotes, likely from users not even subscribed to the community. As a result, I now only post on Lemmy when the post is directed to a large community, and I use Reddit for the rest.

  • SirEDCaLot@lemmy.todayEnglish
    7·
    15 days ago

    There’s currently no way to delete an uploaded image.

    That’s especially problematic since pasting any image into a reply box auto-uploads it. So if your finger slips and you upload something sensitive, or if you want to take down something you uploaded previously, there’s no way to do it.

    What should happen is whenever you upload an image, the image and delete key get stored in some special part of your Lemmy account. Then from the Lemmy account management page you can see all your uploaded images and delete them individually or in bulk.

    So it seems you can now do this- Profile, Uploads shows you all your uploads. Go Lemmy!

  • P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
    6·
    17 days ago

    I would like to have the ability to follow a Lemmy user, in the sense of seeing their posts in unblocked communities.

  • thegreekgeek@midwest.socialEnglish
    6·
    17 days ago

    We need an RSS feed for saved posts, but the Devs seem to think it would be a privacy issue. Now idk what kinda Fucked up porn They’re saving on Lemmy but I just want to read the articles I save on here in my RSS reader.

    • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.worldEnglish
      3·
      16 days ago

      Just implemented it for fun on my instance (lemmings.world). Sadly you need to be a user of that instance for it to work. When logged in you go to https://lemmings.world/rss/init, afterwards a link is shown (among other information) that looks something like https://lemmings.world/rss/4e6490fe0613f6e2e03cd420f71df14476e769b57604652921c1a7b2150f0888 - that is your personal RSS feed of stuff you saved with a URL that cannot be guessed automatically (the hash is entirely random).

      It could be made to work for all instances, but that would take me a while. You can also ask the admins to install the app on their website (it’s open source and can be found at https://github.com/RikudouSage/LemmyPersonalRss).

  • awwwyissss@lemm.eeEnglish
    5·
    17 days ago

    Seems like there’s basically no effort to address disinformation. I love the idea of the fediverse, but I’ve never told a single person I use it in well over a year because I’d be embarrassed if they ever visited and saw some of the content that gets upvoted here.

    • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.worldEnglish
      6·
      16 days ago

      I mean, Lemmy devs are tankies, who participate in misinformation sharing.

      If you see some, report it. Some of us admins of other Lemmy instances take disinformation seriously.

      • awwwyissss@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        16 days ago

        Thank you for your efforts, I have so much respect for the people who are helping to build a healthy fediverse.

        • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.worldEnglish
          2·
          14 days ago

          It goes to the mods and to the admins of either the reporting user’s instance or the instance of the user being reported.

          So whenever a lemmings.world user reports something, I know about it and whenever something by a lemmings.world user is reported, I know about it as well.

          I personally don’t moderate content that breaks community rules, I think that’s the mods responsibility/privilege, but if it breaks instance rules, I deal with the comment/post/pm myself. Some of the other admins I know moderate the same way.