The ability to sort by controversial and most downvoted.
Controversial was added on 0.19 release. This is the pull request.
I was really looking forward to scaled sorting on Lemmy, but it didn’t quite live up to my expectations. I thought it would be like the “top” sort but with more diversity, but it ended up feeling more like the “new” sort with most posts having just a single vote.
Right now I’m not particularly excited about any upcoming features. The last release had some great additions.
I wish there was a roadmap for Lemmy so I could anticipate future releases like I do with other projects.
It would also be great to have nightly builds for testing new features before they’re officially released on most instances.
kw blocking
Yeah keyword, tag or regex blocking would be nice. Something like this:
I wish there was some feature in the works to let me see less memes and US politics without having to block or subscribe to a bunch of communities.
I think that I’d probably just aim to find interesting communities and subscribe.
Right now, community discoverability is really bad in Lemmy. But Lemmy Explorer lets you browse a list of communities across all instances, which is probably more like what most people are wanting:
https://lemmyverse.net/communities
Hit Lemmy Explorer, look for communities that are interesting, subscribe to those.
I guess it’d also be possible for someone – not even the lemmy project necessarily, third-party – to try to do a Web front-end, recommend posts across all communities based on what you want – but that’s kinda a non-community-centric model, and I think that Reddit and lemmy/kbin are kinda fundamentally community-centric. With their model, it actually has some…problems to just send people to random communities. Kbin had (probably still has) a feature to randomly throw some posts in the sidebar to help people discover new communities. That quickly ran into some issues:
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Some people really don’t want certain types of random content showing up in their sidebar, like NSFW content (especially if people have forgotten to flag it as NSFW).
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Some people don’t pay attention to the community they’re in. Kbin’s random recommendations results in kbin sending a bunch of random users into random (sometimes quite niche) communities and sometimes those people don’t pay much attention to the instance or community. I remember seeing some random kbin user go to something like technology@pawb.social – a furry instance – and comment disparagingly on how there were multiple furries in the discussion. A bunch of responses later along the “why are you even in this community if you have an issue with furries”, people figured out that it was someone being randomly thrown into the thing. I think that randomly injecting people into communities can kind of cause frictions.
Any recommendation system is inevitably – especially if the Threadiverse grows a lot – going to have people game it to try to ram things they want to promote in front of people’s eyeballs. And if the recommendation algorithm is open-source, even easier. With a community-centric approach, the mods can handle that, but if you’re looking at posts from random communities, not so much.
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I might be missing this each time I check, but what is different about sublinks? Visually the demo looks the same
Is it a front-end that’s easier to contribute to? Can instances come back to Lemmy if it doesn’t work out?
It’s a replacement for the Lemmy backend. It’s designed to be API-compatible initially so existing Lemmy clients, including Lemmy-UI can just plug right in.
I see
How would this compare efficiency wise, because my understanding was that Lemmys backend was very efficient and that was a big advantage
It’s in Java, so there’s that overhead. I don’t speak for the project, but mostly, it’s less about “efficiency at all costs” and more about maintainability, being easier to contribute to / review, and having a less toxic development community. It’s got more developers working on it than Lemmy, and it’s in a language more people are familiar with (Java). It’s roadmap is also not constrained by the viewpoints of a small group of fairly, uh, controversial figures.
After the 1:1 compatibility phase is over, they’re both free to and planning to implement more features that the Lemmy devs either won’t or can’t be arsed to do.
having a less toxic development community
What exactly do you mean by “toxic development community”? I’ve heard some critique of Lemmy developers for being tankies but I’ve never heard something like this about Lemmy.
I’d like something like multi-reddits. I want to be able to define specific groups of communities to show together, instead of having to either have a mish-mash of everything, or having to view each community on its own.
The problem is that there are so many different ideas to do that that I doubt they are anywhere close to reaching a consensus. There was the user created multi-communities idea, another about moderators being able to subscribe a community to another, and a few others.
Here is the main discussion:
A better way of dealing with cross posts
Having the ability for communities to follow other communities so we could have them less tied to instances. I remember a spec for that being drafted, but I’m not sure what happened to it.
Some sort of community interlinking would be great. There a dozens of duplicate and deserted communities that could all be linked up into a common feed without actually merging them. Sort of a federation within the federation system
Idk if its in the works but really want transportable profiles, and the ability to add a licence to content i post like pixelfed and peertube.
Would also be nice to have tags hopefully they federate with mastodon.
Idk if they are gonna add any of this just would like to see it in the future.
Idk if its in the works but really want transportable profiles, and the ability to add a licence to content i post like pixelfed and peertube.
That isn’t in the works. @nutomic@lemmy.ml decided to close the issue on GitHub without waiting for community input.
Would also be nice to have tags hopefully they federate with mastodon.
Or even have a way to automatically keep your profile saved localyl or backed up to your own cloud service.
Account migration similar to Mastodon and better onboarding of users similar to Pixelfed.
Account migration similar to Mastodon
That isn’t in the works. @nutomic@lemmy.ml decided to close the issue on GitHub without waiting for community input:
Agreed. Ability to migrate communities would also be nice. What happens if a prominent instance shuts down? I also had the founder of a community I was active in unilaterally delete it which was frustrating. I’m not sure why that is permitted.
Option to add tags when posting so that people can block/subscribe according to their preferences beyond selecting whole communities.
Those issues seem to be closed without completion.
Open links in new tabs but that is never coming because the Devs are like ‘you have a middle mouse button’
That’s already came in the latest 0.19 release.
Reddit Lemmy Enhancement Suite. Loved RES for it’s ability to tag users, style tweaks, and all the other functions on that other site, would be awesome to see it here as well.
Yep, RES was pretty awesome. I seem to recall having engaged them and suggested something similar when things were going down and they didn’t have much interest.
Would probably be a ground-up project considering the APIs and element tags are almost certainly all different and don’t map 1:1 reliably. That’s not a point against doing it, just an observation that it doesn’t have to be tied to the original.
IPO.
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I’d love multi communities. So you can maybe have a community mirror posts from another. Perhaps they can do this to avoid the fragmentations
The problem is that there are so many different ideas to do that that I doubt they are anywhere close to reaching a consensus. There was the user created multi-communities idea, another about moderators being able to subscribe a community to another, and a few others.
Here is the main discussion:
