For me-- Lemmy is getting dangerously close to pulling me away from Reddit, and I love it, but still, there’s a ways to go in terms of ‘critical features,’ yeah?

So then, here’s two of mine below. What are yours?

  • I’d still very much like to HIDE threads I’m not interested in. Otherwise, no matter what stream I choose (Subscribed | Local | All), I keep seeing the same topics, and it can be downright difficult paging through streams to see new stuff from more communities. That’s not good, frankly.

  • I very much want the ability to create *more* custom streams. On Reddit, those streams are called “MultiReddits,” and let me tell you, they rock! For instance, my one “Series” multi-reddit consists of these:

/r/1950sx /r/1960sx /r/andykaufmanx /r/Asterixx /r/blackadderx /r/CoenBrothersx /r/Comics_Studiesx /r/DepthHubx /r/fathertedx /r/FawltyTowersx /r/Flintstonesx /r/FoolUsx /r/HannaBarberaCUx /r/Holmesx /r/InconvenienceStorex /r/jimjefferiesx /r/lettermanx /r/ligneclairex /r/Muppetsx /r/newsradiox /r/OldSchoolCelebsx /r/peeweex /r/pennandtellerx /r/philipkDickheadsx /r/postapocalypticx /r/silentmoviegifsx /r/TheAdventuresofTintinx /r/TheFlintstonesx /r/TNGx /r/tosx /r/venturebrosx

So that’s just /one/ of my 12+ stream groups (“MultiReddits”), and I love how one can parse them so specifically by community, you know?

I’d absolutely adore it such functionality could extend to Lemmy / the FV, one day.

  • Stillhart@lemm.ee
    17·
    1 year ago

    Not reddit exactly, but RES has the ability to track the amount of karma you’ve given specific users. It also let you tag users with custom info.

    These two features helped me recognize when I’m interacting with people repeatedly, which really helped it feel like a community. Especially useful the bigger the subreddit was.

    • jossbo@lemmy.ml
      2·
      1 year ago

      Thise are good points and I see the appeal, but I like that lemmy doesn’t track the total karma a user has generated. It discourages karma farming, people love sering the number go up! I know this isn’t that but it still makes me nervous cos it’s adjacent to that.

      tl;dr you’re not wrong, but let’s be careful :)

      • JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.eeOP
        2·
        1 year ago

        That’s not quite what @Stillhart@lemm.ee is saying, though. They’re talking about, independently of one’s instance or the FV tracking a user’s karma for all to see, instead, a specific add-on tool (RES) allows individual users to track karmic interactions with other users.

        Personally, I find it quite useful. RES also offered the ability to tag other users with notes, another helpful thing.

        • Stillhart@lemm.ee
          2·
          1 year ago

          Exactly, both of those things are really awesome tools that I’d love to see here.

    • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.ml
      9·
      1 year ago

      Multi-communities are on the radar for the devs. Don’t know of any timeline, but it’s not an uncommon request and I think the devs appreciate the value of it.

  • oatmilkmaid@possumpat.io
    9·
    1 year ago

    You can hide posts - I believe. There’s a setting in your Lemmy profile to hide read posts. It’s a server side setting so it’ll propagate to any apps. I believe some apps also have their own local “hide post” feature.

    Note that the Lemmy profile setting is pretty generous when it comes considering what’s read and what isn’t, but in general it works.

    I suggest browsing New, the experience is 100% better.

    I believe multi communities have been suggested before. Not sure if there’s an issue for it on GitHub yet.

    • JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.eeOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      There’s a setting in your Lemmy profile to hide read posts. It’s a server side setting so it’ll propagate to any apps.

      Not totally sure I understand. I don’t use apps, but browser, and don’t see any such setting in my profile toggles.

        • JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.eeOP
          2·
          1 year ago

          Actually it turned out to be a disaster. Unfortunately, the option in question has no discretion, and will hide posts from the overview of any instance at all. For example, I recently became unable to view posts in my own instance, and struggled for days trying to figure out what the issue was. Finally I thought back to this convo, reversed the setting, and now the problem is solved.

          Therefore, when the Lemmy code is able to tag individual posts & comments as hidden, I reckon they ought to kill that option in user settings, as it can cause way more trouble than its worth IME.

          @maegul@lemmy.ml

          • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            I’m not sure I understand what happened to you.

            will hide posts from the overview of any instance at all

            By this do you mean that a post is considered Read and therefore Hidden whenever any one person has read the post?

            • JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.eeOPEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              Well, not any one /random/ person, but you, the user! I.e., right now, it all depends on what posts YOU clicked on yourself. (if you clicked on them even once, now they’re forever disappeared under that particular setting, see)

              Now, this might be helpful when browsing a feed or stream, but when it comes to looking at single instances, can be very *unhelpful*.

              For example (as said above)-- I have a tiny community (mostly of my own work), and because of that setting, can’t even see what the posts are, now.

              That is-- unless I turn the setting OFF, I can see *zero* content in my very own community, i.e. the one that I started. And of course, it messes up other instances which are merely in my ‘favorite’ streams. When I browse to them specifically in order to see what their latest content is, anything I viewed before then is now “missing.”

              It winds up being a terrible feature unless you purely view by stream, in other words.

              @oatmilkmaid@evistre@possumpat.io

              • oatmilkmaid@possumpat.ioEnglish
                1·
                1 year ago

                Yeah, like I said the Lemmy setting is ridiculously generous with what it considers read and how it hides things. Best way to circumvent this is just to use an app that’s has the option to hide read posts in-app and doesn’t use the Lemmy settings. I think Voyager (formerly wefwef) does it, maybe Memmy? Not sure about the Android applications. Connect probably

  • TeaHands@lemmy.world
    5·
    1 year ago

    Your two for sure, then probably post flair would be the next for me.

    But that’s from a user pov, I daresay the people trying to control the fastest growing communities would like some mod tools asap and giving them what they need will make things a lot better for us plebs too.

  • mysoulishome@lemmy.world
    5·
    1 year ago

    The rabbit hole of established niche communities to enjoy like AntiMLM or all the ones you mentioned. You can find something and have years of quality content to browse through whether old school celebs, movie details, amas, discussions to mine where people tell amazing stories that got turned into buzzfeed articles

    We have good people and good conversation on lemmy but the history, man…

  • zurvan2@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 year ago

    We really need better sorting. My feed seems to be dominated by just a few communities rather than having a balance between all the ones I’m subscribed to.

    And everything except “new” seems to stagnate too much.

  • iod@lemmy.ml
    4·
    1 year ago

    I miss being able to subscribe to a post and get notifications when there are new comments. It was an RES feature.

  • otter bee@lemmy.world
    51·
    1 year ago

    I very much want the ability to create more custom streams

    fwiw I believe there is a proposal for this right now on github.

    personally I’ll probably miss flair, and easily knowing my “karma” count (maybe I’m missing that?). me like big numbers.

    • snowadv@lemm.ee
      7·
      1 year ago

      It’s good actually that there’s no global karma count: it means you won’t have the reason to farm karma by reposting/posting bad quality content => more good OC in your feed

  • lugal@lemmy.one
    3·
    1 year ago

    I’d still very much like to HIDE threads I’m not interested in. Otherwise, no matter what stream I choose (Subscribed | Local | All), I keep seeing the same topics, and it can be downright difficult paging through streams to see new stuff from more communities. That’s not good, frankly.

    1. You can choose a sorting algorithm. If you sort by “New” you get the new stuff but you can also sort by active, new comments, … to get variation.

    2. At least in Jerboa, there is the account setting “Show Read Posts”.

    I hope that’s helpful. I’m pretty sure it exists but I haven’t found a history function. I’d like to have a list of the last posts I’ve visited.

    • JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.eeOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      Thanks; I understand. My problem with “New” is that it doesn’t necessarily mean there’s activity yet. Sometimes I really would like to stay with “Active” and just hide stuff I have no interest in.

    • iod@lemmy.ml
      5·
      1 year ago

      but you can already do this? i just saved your comment and it showed up on my profile

      • FrankLaskey@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        Oh then I guess it must just be a limitation in Memmy because that’s what I use. Unless I’m just missing it?

        • iod@lemmy.ml
          3·
          1 year ago

          yes i was using the standard web interface. most likely your app hasn’t implemented it yet