Just wanted to ask: what do you not like in Lemmy (Lemmy as communities, server and clients)?
This is just a way for me to get some feedback from the community.
Better cross-posting detection support, subscribe to all 3 communities and I’d appreciate Lemmy could understand that this is the same link in those 3 communities and visualize it as a cross-post:
Populated niche communities. The Reddit Exodus created a big blip that now, a month later, well it seems to have died down.
A few thousand people gave Lemmy a shot, and after lemmy.world had issues with the traffic, and went down a lot this past thirty days, I think people just stopped trying.
This is the best Reddit alternative out there and still it’s got such poor adoption because it’s so different under the hood.
I myself feel I’m missing out on so much content here as was available on Reddit, but I’m trying to actually make a difference by not going back.
To name a few big ones for me:
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spoilers
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flairs/tagging
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a better mod portal
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automod bots
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database stability
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wiki support
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saved posts being in the ORDER I SAVED THEM not the order they were posted. That’s basic functionality man!
ITT:
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Following users
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better crossposting
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more users ( I think the other issues cause this one a bit)
Spoilers work, do it like this:
Some visible text
And the text you want hidden
::: spoiler Some visible text
And the text you want hidden
:::
Works on web and on Jerboa.
Yes, again, thay is not the spoiler I’m talking about, I’m talking about a post thay specifically has a built in spoiler tag, like the NSFW tag
Tagging other users already is a feature in Connect, spoilers (in textbodies) work on all apps that I used and bots are getting made right now and it is only a matter of time until they are as ubiquitous as on reddit.
I feel like the main lacking point would be a small user base. I’m new to Lemmy as of a few months ago since the Reddit API changes. I wish more people knew of the other options out there other than Reddit. It’s really only a minority of people who left and jumped to Lemmy.
I suppose the big ones for me:
- The ability to follow people which would unlock a lot more interoperability between other Fediverse services.
- A wiki for each community.
edit: And
- Better moderation tools, especially merging or moving posts.
Kbin has follower support, it’s just hit or miss an which federated instances update properly, for example misskey doesn’t show me posts newer than a week old
Kbin has follower support
Which suggests it’s doable for Lemmy, I imagine it just isn’t top of their list as they want to make sure it all integrates nicely with the current set-up.
