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!

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[–] kingofras@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

universal tagging (when you friend or follow a user, whatever they tag (comms or users) is shared with you until you unfollow them
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
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.
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.
This may be client related, but push notifications on comments, mod actions and DMs would be nice too.

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

PieFed does this

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

This post is about Lemmy however.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 3 points 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@lemmy.zip 1 points 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.com 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)

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

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 2 points 7 hours ago

the Lemmy devs are very much against merged comments

No? It was said it shouldn't be done in the backend, a frontend or an alternative client can still do PieFed style comment listing.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 1 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

the Lemmy devs are very much against merged comments

For good reason perhaps? It merges distinct communities together, making communities less distinct. Different communities can have different moderation and participation standards and norms. Merging them I feel is a bad idea.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

At the moment we have a few famous examples of similar communities coexisting

All of those communities have similar rules, there's nothing distinguishing them (!privacy@lemmy.ml for instance is different) except that mods never bothered to agree on a single place

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 1 points 6 hours ago

I don't think this is a problem. If the communities are similar enough, one will eventually win and be the bigger and main one. If they are different enough, they can continue coexisting.

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

merging them completely is bad yes, but the way PieFed does it is nice, they have separate headers for the comments from each community

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I personally still feel like this brings the communities too close.

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 1 points 17 hours ago

I could see it causing clashes for very specific communities, maybe those could be manually disabled cause I can only think of very few