Ask Lemmy

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.

Some sort of automatic down-sampling feature before posting, for images, video and maybe audio.

DeltaChat has this built in to minimise file-sizes before posting.

Something like this would reduce plenty of bandwith/processor use/carbon etc. Increase speed of loading pages.

With an option to click to see the original media too.

Picture Albums that you can scroll through on an app.

• 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

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

option to get notifications when a post or a comment subtree gets a new comment. Especially (but not only) useful for your own posts, and for when you have commented on a topic whereyou are interested in not only the direct responses, but in the overall discussion.

to handle deleted content better: when a post or a comment is deleted, keep them openable, to still have the context readable

Reddit Markdown lets one use italics inside links, like so:

I like [the author of *A Game of Thrones*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_R._R._Martin).

However, Lemmy does not presently support this syntax, renders it as:

I like the author of A Game of Thrones.

I frequently want to have partially-styled links like this, particularly italics.

EDIT: Okay, I just discovered that apparently this has been implemented since the last time I tried it. Thanks, devs!

In frontends, I'd like to have the option to not show displaynames, or at least show real usernames next to displaynames.

If you want to reference a user using @username@instance syntax, you need to know their username, and while the displaynames can be cute, I've just never seen a really compelling argument for them. I also haven't seen anyone abusing them yet, but they seem likely to be trouble from a "trying to impersonate someone else" standpoint.

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.

Spoiler posts

Allow me to upvote posts and comments within search.

Super-compact mode for posts.

Linking one of the AO3 tag tutorials because tagging? is extremely powerful.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/41214669?view_full_work=true

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Aenhancement

(I think that's the official list.)

Detect AI prompts attached to images and not strip them from images on upload the way other EXIF data is.

Stripping EXIF location data to help keep people from being doxxed is one thing, but AI image generators try to make images with metadata to indicate that the images are AI generated, which helps avoid using them for training and lets people inspect how images are created. As of now, that gets stripped on upload. It's particularly obnoxious over in !imageai@sh.itjust.works.

EDIT: Even nicer would be the option to leave EXIF location data attached, and merely warn a user at upload time about location data and provide the option to strip it, as I can certainly imagine communities where people would really like to be able to include precise location data with their images.

UI improvements.

• frontpage by default is too old (sometimes 2+ days)
• better search
• maybe it's just me but my tiny brain refuses to learn clicking on a title brings me to the comments and not the article. an option would be nice
• filters based on tags
• can mods post comments next to a title? this can be very helpful (e.g. "misleading?")

I'd love to see something similar to reddit enhancement suite.

Make it easier to join.