• nethad@feddit.de
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    I would like to see recommendations for communities based on my communities. It’s not trivial to solve, but discoverability isn’t great right now.

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      Problem here is also that your instance may not know about all communities from the instances you’re connected to. This could probably also be improved.

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        Yes, that’s what I mean by not trivial, a centralized system can do analysis like this a lot easier. But even on your own instance, they could find the N users with the most overlapping subscriptions and check which communities they follow to give you recommendations.

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      I guess the ‘simple’ way of doing this would be adding tags to communities like ‘art’ ‘hobbies’ ‘sport’ ‘football’ etc. This might then let the app suggest others based on the tags you are subscribed to.

      It would probably still require some AI/analytics to work out the links based on user activity in different communities/tags but I think it would make it easier to group interests and promote smaller communities.

      It could also improve Lemmy visibility in Masterdon if the tags are used as hashtags or something. (Would require more work)

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      Recommendation algorithms are a big reason for the enshitification of other social media. You don’t need to be connected to everything everywhere all at once. Enjoy your handful of small communities.

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        I don’t want random posts to appear in my feed from communities I haven’t subscribed to, but I want to have a feature that shows me suggestions for communities when I ask for it. That’s a big difference. Right now it’s (too) hard to find these communities.

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    Moderation tools. They need to drop literally everything else they are working on and build robust moderation tools for community owners. Nothing else matters more than this.

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    Allow communities that contain the same content but exist on different instances to show each others content as if they were one community.

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      That sounds like it’d be fantastic for reading but, depending on how it’s implemented, hell for posting.

      Lemmy already aggregates posts from communities you follow into one feed. If it allowed the creation of an arbitrary number of sub-feeds configurable by the user, that would be incredible. But every user would have to build these on their own from scratch. Great for user choice, but no communities will come bundled by default, so small communities won’t get a discovery boost.

      If instead there was some kind of first-class notion of a “supercommunity” offered on the server side, where it acted as a transparent view of other communities, that’d be a great visibility boost for small communities. But if you tried to post to it, which underlying community would it post to? You’d have to either designate a default community to receive posts (which would be unfair to every other community there), randomize where it goes to (which would be a quagmire, what if your post is allowed in half of the communities present but rule-breaking in the others?), burden the user with choosing (which would be hell if there are a lot), or simply make it read-only. I don’t really like any of these. It also raises hairy questions about who will control which communities are and are not part of the group, how the groupings react to defeds, etc.

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        I believe there was a new threadiverse software that has build what you describe. But I can’t remember the name.

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        Except multireddit were not shared accross users, making them largely irrelevant.

        On lemmy, the default view should be, if you go to /c/books, you get all books on all instances in a single place.

        Anything less will suffer the same downfall as reddit

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          What if someone created a /c/books on their own instance with bad intentions, and filled it with propaganda, porn, and ads?

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            Just block it We can share block list, preferably automatic consensus blocklists and gradual deamplification list. The alternative is the current default which as if they were all already blocked, except the one big one.

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        I do. I go to the twittoverse to hear about asian-drama but that a bubble that don’t discuss other type of tv: american show, turkish soap, telenovela, … we could so many community.

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    Cross instance post/comment deletion.

    Sometimes I just don’t want my comments to live forever and deleting shouldn’t be impossible.

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    There NEEDS to be an account migration option, with not only settings but also my saved posts and comments, own posts and comments etc. If not possible, at least allow an export in the style of a gddpr dump from the likes of facebook etc. to allow import at a later time when implemented.

    My instance is shutting down at the end of the month (~500 users) and there is no good way to export my data. I would not be surprised if some of the 500 get frustrated and stop with lemmy.

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    An option to view all comments from crossposts when browsing a post. It’s annoying how you can see a post that’s been crossposted 5 times and wonder where the comments are.

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    Guessing fixing child porn propagation isn’t the highest priority?

    Make it easier for server admins to connect/link to the child porn hash databases, scripts for autobans + deletion of any content, flagging + notify to other servers etc.

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      This should actually be #1. Last thing I want for the fediverse is for it to become a CP haven because we lack proper moderation. I recently received an amazing presentation on the issue of CP distribution from a seasoned officer, and CP is a genuine and dangerous issue. Go look up what sextortion is.

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    Not a technical thing, but…

    Better user interactions. I know not everyone came from reddit, but there are so many reddit-like interactions across Lemmy. I’m talking about not assuming good faith and jumping down people’s throats. Low-effort comments (I’m guilty of this, too). The need to always be right and continue arguing for no reason.

    It was tiring to see this on reddit over the years. But it’s sad to see how much of that behavior has made its way to Lemmy.

    With federation, however, there’s not really a good way to solve this, since each instance, including self-hosted instances, determines their own moderation and “culture.” But it would be something I’d like to see improved, even i we each have to do it ourselves.

    On the technical side, absolutely mod tools. It’s stunning how bad they are here. And I’m coming from reddit, where tools were poor.

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      More options around that in general. I would love a spoiler flag that does the same blur as NSFW but isn’t filtered out by the ‘show NSFW’ checkbox.

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      It would probably be better to have a more general tag system and then NSFW and NSFL could just be examples of tags.

      Although NSFW really serves the extra purpose of “18+” which is important to have for legal reasons.

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        Maybe a setting for each tag for whether it qualifies as NSFW? That way you could have multiple tags that would be filtered as NSFW for different classes of content, which could enable individual users to only filter one of the tags if they only want to avoid something specific.

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    The ability to see all the communities if you search them up without having to find it via lemmyverse.net and inserting the specific fedi url to the search bar. It’s a crucial thing for an average Joe, no matter it’s due to how the fedi protocol works.

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    Sort by two filters at once (top this day, controversial this week, …)

    Controversial and others are literally useless, its always the same posts