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.
I use Summit and can create any multi communities I want. Not sure what other apps have it.
Like this? https://piefed.social/topics
Close. I want to define the ones that I use. Other people can define what multilemmies they want. It should be user-oriented, not server-oriented.
Yeah, that would be cool.
I think Kbin has this. They call it ‘collections’. https://kbin.social/magazines/collections
This is nice. It’s good that people can subscribe to these. But I also want to be able to make my own, because I might only want to read 5 magazines in their list of 25 magazines for selfhosted.
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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:
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
/cs/ and have it a list of ©ommunitie(s) like reddit allows with groups. That would be nice. At first, there might be a lot of re-posts as people get used to it.
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,
Yeah. That’s gonna be necessary for people to deal with instances that maybe go down.
I’d like that to be based on a pub/privkey pair, with the privkey not being uploaded. Like, I can sign a message in the profile on each account saying “I am both [email protected] and [email protected]; [email protected] isn’t some imposter”.
You can do that manually in your profile and have humans verify it, I guess, but it’s something that software could handle automatically.
Other benefits:
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If someone breaks into an instance and compromises the password database and attacks it offline, as things stand, you have no way to prove that you are who you say you are. If you have the private key, you can come back and re-establish trusted identity, since it’s tied to a pubkey.
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It doesn’t even need to deal with permanent moves. If an instance is just down temporarily – which does happen – it’d be nice to just seamlessly browse on another instance. I dunno if there’s a great way to do that from a browser, absent plugins, but for native clients, the client could dump the subscription list, etc and sync them. Help reliability of the service in general.
I love how u independantly came to my ideal implementation. It solve so many problems and helps make security tight af.
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Or even have a way to automatically keep your profile saved localyl or backed up to your own cloud service.
I think that you could do the profile export/import in native clients, without any server-side changes, but it’d be nicer to have server-side support.
I mean idealy ur account is simply an id and a public key. Therefore ur private key is all ur account is u fully control it unhackable verifyable etc etc
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. @[email protected] decided to close the issue on GitHub without waiting for community input.
Would also be nice to have tags hopefully they federate with mastodon.
It’s already largely resolved through the feature to export/import user profile.
A better way of dealing with cross posts
Is that something theyre working on?
That would definitely be my biggest wish-list item. It get so obnoxious seeing like 6 crossposts of the same post, and none of them have any comments.
Account migration similar to Mastodon and better onboarding of users similar to Pixelfed.
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.
Makes sense that founders can delete it, but you can ask the instance admin to restore it and make you moderator in that community.
Not to me. The community belongs to the users, not just the first person who camps out there. But that is a good tip, thanks.
Account migration similar to Mastodon
That isn’t in the works. @[email protected] decided to close the issue on GitHub without waiting for community input:
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.
Right now I’m not particularly excited about any upcoming features.
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 thought scaled sorting would solve this issue, I was really looking forward to it, 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.
The last release had some great additions. I wish there was a roadmap for Lemmy so I could anticipate future releases and features 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 [email protected] – 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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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.
No idea if it’s planned, but it would be nice to be able to follow posts like you could with RES.
Yes! I’d love this.
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
Lemmy is decentralized. Fragmentation is a good thing because it makes cyberspace mimic real space. Glomming every discussion of X topic into one discussion of X topic isn’t necessarily a positive.
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:
More users when Reddit does something so stupid that people will leave in millions.
I only learned about Lemmy from word of mouth at work. I wonder if there’s a way to engage on Reddit in a way that will help migrate people to communities here? (Maybe that would violate Reddit rules, but certainly linking to Lemmy isn’t entirely disallowed, no?)
People were getting banned for talking about Lemmy on Reddit
oof, that’s not good
To think that the reddit ceo is mad about such a small userbase compared to theirs. childish behaviour.
Separate admin vs mod reports.
Subscribe to threads and/or comment threads. Follow users. Mixed feeds (sort by Hot with every 4th post being a post from the New feed and option to change the frequency)
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. 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 don’t want this to become a rant thread, but the devs have frequently told contributors “No one is forcing you to develop for Lemmy”. That’s but one example.
Can you point to any examples? Genuinely curious.
I’m new to lemmy, so I could be missing some important context, but you arent making a very good pitch with this post. Java is a downgrade from rust, and unless I’m reading wrong you seem to suggest they are planning to deliberately introduce new features into this java implementation as a way to break up the network on purpose, which would make lemmy instances obsolete, and you sort of present it as a good thing and suggest its a deliberate political move on behalf of sublinks. But you didn’t even explain in your post why lemmy exactly needs to be replaced. So you are calling lemmy toxic, but already this new project is just seeming very underhanded and manipulative by its very existence. As a user who just wants a better reddit alternative, reading this post makes me feel like I stumbled upon a project motivated by a grudge (just based on the way it’s phrased) and you leave me more inclined to speak out against it than endorse it, since it seems like an attempt to divide the network, and I’ve seen what happens to divided networks where instances have different features and refuse to work together (just look at XMPP). So unless you can explain what is wrong with lemmy’s development or roadmap I think everybody reading this should be very skeptical of sublinks and cautious of the threat posed by projects like this in general.
I see, thanks for the info :)
Sublinks will be scalable, so every instance with any size can just scale to their need.
Java is a fucking awful language.
Java is an good old joker. You can use that perfectly almost everywhere. Everyone knows it, understands it and its readable. Because of it, Sublinks can get more developers into the project and develop the project more quicker and there are more eyes looking over the code. In comparison lemmy has active like 3-4 active developers. Sublinks is currently at 5-6 active and 10 at their peak. And every developer can learn java quicker than the hipster language rust.
Hipster language? It’s a lot more popular than you suggest.
In app notifications or emails for reports to mods. I honestly can’t believe this hasn’t been addressed. If someone knows something I don’t, please correct me.
