Often, its asked what the fediverse or lemmy needs more of in terms of content, but are there any specific features or functionality you really feel are lacking?
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Being able to actually migrate an account, not just settings and follows etc but your post and comment history etc. All data
Some way of linking to a post somewhere on Lemmy that will open up the post in your logged in instance of Lemmy.
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there’s https://lemmyverse.link, but a native way of doing so would be nice.
Ultimately, using a protocol handler instead of URLs would solve that (ie: like how
mailtolinks works).Search the remote post URL in your search bar, it will open locally
Polls
Show me a list of posts and comments I upvoted.
That works with Boost for Lemmy, so apparantly the data is already there in the backend (and at least one frontend).
The voyager app has that feature.
Ninja edits. A grace period where you can edit your comment without it showing it was edited. This is usually for typos and formatting mistakes that you notice right after posting your comment. A minute will do.
If anything, I’d love a diff of each edit vs the ability to ninja edit
rather than allowing edits for invisible edits for X minutes, couldn’t your client just delay actually sending it for X minutes allowing to cancel or edit freely until that point?
Gmail allows a similar feature and it seems safer in a distributed system than relying on everyone else to respect what happens after you send a raw message and an edit right after
Implementing this like Gmail would mean doing it server-side. Handling it in the client would be more error-prone, since your device would have to have a good connection in the future, and if it doesn’t, handle retries and make sure never to double-post.
Followong a user.
You can, at least, do that externally through RSS:
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Back-up/failover instances for communities and users.
Every user and every admin of a community should be able to assign a failover instance in case the main instance goes down temporarily or permanently. All relevant data (posts, upvotes, settings, password hashes, mod log) would be permanently syched so you could just switch over in case of a downtime and most importantly, no content would be lost.
If you implement a feature to set the failover instance as your new main instance, that would also implicitly allow you to migrate users and communities elsewhere.
Tags for posts
Auto mark reply notifications as read.
why? dont you want to read them?
No, I mean clicking on them and reading them doesn’t mark them as read. You have to manually click the “Mark all as read” button or individually click the “mark as read” arrow button on each of the comments.
More users that aren’t Americans talking about their politics would be nice.
Lol I’ve had the experience of others not from my country telling me what the real politics of my country are because they know better than the people living there, apparently. No thanks.
I want to be able to put alt text on an image post upload. Accessibility is cool.
It is implemented on Lemmy 0.19.4. Lemmy.world is one of the few instances still running 0.19.3
Post flairs
The obvious one, tags and flairs
I’d like to be able to mark specific top level posts as ‘don’t show me this again’.
This is available in Lemmy 0.19.5, which almost all instances use except Lemmy.world
Consolidation of communities with a sort of overlay.
Mods can choose to mirror the whole community. This way you can have a sort of unified community happening between instances instead of happening on each island.
Also mods can move a discussion if needed.Just recently I have seen a three separate discussions across three different c/technology communities.
