For me-- Lemmy is getting dangerously close to pulling me away from Reddit, and I love it, but still, there’s a ways to go in terms of ‘critical features,’ yeah?
So then, here’s two of mine below. What are yours?
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I’d still very much like to HIDE threads I’m not interested in. Otherwise, no matter what stream I choose (Subscribed | Local | All), I keep seeing the same topics, and it can be downright difficult paging through streams to see new stuff from more communities. That’s not good, frankly.
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I very much want the ability to create *more* custom streams. On Reddit, those streams are called “MultiReddits,” and let me tell you, they rock! For instance, my one “Series” multi-reddit consists of these:
/r/1950sx /r/1960sx /r/andykaufmanx /r/Asterixx /r/blackadderx /r/CoenBrothersx /r/Comics_Studiesx /r/DepthHubx /r/fathertedx /r/FawltyTowersx /r/Flintstonesx /r/FoolUsx /r/HannaBarberaCUx /r/Holmesx /r/InconvenienceStorex /r/jimjefferiesx /r/lettermanx /r/ligneclairex /r/Muppetsx /r/newsradiox /r/OldSchoolCelebsx /r/peeweex /r/pennandtellerx /r/philipkDickheadsx /r/postapocalypticx /r/silentmoviegifsx /r/TheAdventuresofTintinx /r/TheFlintstonesx /r/TNGx /r/tosx /r/venturebrosx
So that’s just /one/ of my 12+ stream groups (“MultiReddits”), and I love how one can parse them so specifically by community, you know?
I’d absolutely adore it such functionality could extend to Lemmy / the FV, one day.
Not reddit exactly, but RES has the ability to track the amount of karma you’ve given specific users. It also let you tag users with custom info.
These two features helped me recognize when I’m interacting with people repeatedly, which really helped it feel like a community. Especially useful the bigger the subreddit was.
Thise are good points and I see the appeal, but I like that lemmy doesn’t track the total karma a user has generated. It discourages karma farming, people love sering the number go up! I know this isn’t that but it still makes me nervous cos it’s adjacent to that.
tl;dr you’re not wrong, but let’s be careful :)
That’s not quite what @Stillhart@lemm.ee is saying, though. They’re talking about, independently of one’s instance or the FV tracking a user’s karma for all to see, instead, a specific add-on tool (RES) allows individual users to track karmic interactions with other users.
Personally, I find it quite useful. RES also offered the ability to tag other users with notes, another helpful thing.
I miss user flair and multi reddits (would be very helpful here)
You can hide posts - I believe. There’s a setting in your Lemmy profile to hide read posts. It’s a server side setting so it’ll propagate to any apps. I believe some apps also have their own local “hide post” feature.
Note that the Lemmy profile setting is pretty generous when it comes considering what’s read and what isn’t, but in general it works.
I suggest browsing New, the experience is 100% better.
I believe multi communities have been suggested before. Not sure if there’s an issue for it on GitHub yet.
There’s a setting in your Lemmy profile to hide read posts. It’s a server side setting so it’ll propagate to any apps.
Not totally sure I understand. I don’t use apps, but browser, and don’t see any such setting in my profile toggles.
Actually it turned out to be a disaster. Unfortunately, the option in question has no discretion, and will hide posts from the overview of any instance at all. For example, I recently became unable to view posts in my own instance, and struggled for days trying to figure out what the issue was. Finally I thought back to this convo, reversed the setting, and now the problem is solved.
Therefore, when the Lemmy code is able to tag individual posts & comments as hidden, I reckon they ought to kill that option in user settings, as it can cause way more trouble than its worth IME.
The rabbit hole of established niche communities to enjoy like AntiMLM or all the ones you mentioned. You can find something and have years of quality content to browse through whether old school celebs, movie details, amas, discussions to mine where people tell amazing stories that got turned into buzzfeed articles
We have good people and good conversation on lemmy but the history, man…
Your two for sure, then probably post flair would be the next for me.
But that’s from a user pov, I daresay the people trying to control the fastest growing communities would like some mod tools asap and giving them what they need will make things a lot better for us plebs too.
