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!

  • kingofras@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    2 days ago

    Thanks for reaching out to the community. Here are mine.

    1. universal tagging (when you friend or follow a user, whatever they tag (comms or users) is shared with you until you unfollow them
    2. community aggregators. For big communities, merge crossposts automatically on bigger communities like !dataisbeautiful@lemmy.ml and !dataisbeautiful@lemmy.world and !dataisbeautiful@mander.xyz and !dataisbeautiful@lemmit.online
    3. better federated moderation. Notifications of mod actions not just on your own instance, but everywhere. When a post is deleted by a mod for a reason, include the OP in the mod message so you can rewrite or remove the offending part of the message and repost the essence. I can imagine lots of scenarios where devs/mods don’t think that’s a good idea, but some of us didn’t read all the rules and didn’t mean any offense.
    4. Deeper publicly available voting analytics (on post level first but also comment level would be good) when you click on […] next to the metadata, get a voting pie chart that shows which instance the upvotes and downvotes came from. Even an barebones analysis tool that checks if a disproportionate % of up or down votes came from an instance that is rather small or only recently federated.
    5. This may be client related, but push notifications on comments, mod actions and DMs would be nice too.
    • Die4Ever@retrolemmy.comEnglish
      52·
      2 days ago

      community aggregators. For big communities, merge crossposts automatically on bigger communities

      PieFed does this

        • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
          4·
          2 days ago

          Holy crap am I glad someone piped up.

          You know how much I don’t care about Toyota when I’m talking about Hyundai? You know much I really don’t care about piefed’s features when this is not about piefed?

          Thank you.

          • nocturne@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            2·
            2 days ago

            I agree. And while it is amazing the features that rimu has added to piefed, I personally really like Sopuli, and its admin team. I do have a piefed account, and I use it. But Sopuli, and thereby lemmy, is my main instance.

          • Blaze (he/him)@lemmy.zipEnglish
            1·
            1 day ago
            • you can’t get a Toyota on top of your Huyndai in 5 minutes, you can create a Piefed account and import your Lemmy settings in 5 minutes
            • a lot of people aren’t aware about Piefed, and how compatible it is with Lemmy
        • Die4Ever@retrolemmy.comEnglish
          51·
          11 hours ago

          yea, but if Lemmy never adds a feature you really want, maybe we just switch to PieFed lol

          the Lemmy devs are very much against merged comments

          and they haven’t even seemed to notice this thread yet (Rimu did though!) and just closed a ton of issues as “won’t fix”, meanwhile Rimu responded in a similar thread for PieFed within 2 hours of it being posted https://piefed.social/comment/7335468

          although Lemmy does show crossposts already and v1.0 will have multi-communities