We’ve got a lot of Lemmy app options rolling out soon—it’s exciting!
What do you wish was better about the current way you browse Lemmy, and what features do you hope to have down the road?
Off the top of my head…
- Easy user following
- Auto markdown
- Download image/video
- Share as image
Before I got thunder I used jerboa. It has a bug where when I backspaced it would squish the text together making me have to go and respace my text.
Ability to choose the default sort for comments
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Subscribe to whole instances, not just individual communities, that are not Federated by the instance my account is logged into.
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Easily block communities from the ALL feed, without 3 or 4 clicks
, that are not Federated by the instance my account is logged into.
How do you imagine that would work? Federation is what enables you to interact with anything on other instances in the first place.
Or do you just mean “add all communities on a remote instance to the list of communities you can search for locally at once”?
For point two, Connect for Lemmy just added a block button from the three dot menu on the feed.
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I’d like some tablet/large screen optimizations now that I have a Pixel Fold! Sync for Reddit and Infinity are example apps that do it right in my opinion
wefwef.app is perfect and extremely smooth right now and can be installed locally as an app. It’s open-source, it has a GitHub repo for those who want to host their own or want to audit the code. Would be cool if it was available directly as an apk on Play Store, I believe it would be hugely beneficial for Lemmy if it became the “official” app!
I’d say other apps should try to take some hints from wefwef, it does all the things right, is inspired by Apollo and once you use it you won’t miss Reddit at all!
Swiping in order to upvote/downvotes/reply is an awesome feature that definitely stands out.
I’m not a fan of gestures for actions in general, I spend a lot of time trying to get them right or even worse, accidentally making them and doing something I didn’t want.
Massive effort on high quality i18n, l10n and a11y.
Improving just these will make Lemmy accessible to millions of more users and communities.
- Favourite communities (to appear on top of the list);
- Better video support;
- Better sorting algorithm;
- Search for posts (most apps still don’t support);
On top of that, I think the most crucial is to have a very fluid and stable interface, which I think is not the case for most apps.
Honestly, Memmy works pretty amazingly… I was surprised, because last time I tried it it was… empty. It’s REALLY good now.
Multi-lemmy. I really miss having my custom feeds made with the multi reddit tool,.
Something very simple on the web client: a setting to get links to open in a new tab, to make it easier to get back to the same point in the comments.
An option to merge the same post from two different communities in a way that preserves some semblance of federation while also making it so the same headline doesn’t appear a half dozen times in my feed. Maybe by merging together comment sections and putting an indicator next to each comment chain showing which instance it came from.
Something like Reddits “other discussions” button would be enough for me, just pop up to a list of other posts of the same link and list how many comments in each so I know which ones to click on.
User option to block Lemmy server/instance
- Ability for a user to essentially block an entire servers posts. I don’t want to rely on my admin to block a server. I want the option to block all posts and the option to block all posts and comments. (Block or hide is fine)
Quick Scroll
- Button to scroll to next top comment that can be held to scroll to previous top comment (like apollo has)
Mute words
- Ability to block/mute words so for example i can block all communities with the word meme in it because i want to browse All to find new communities but i never want to see meme communities/posts.
Notes
- Add custom notes/tags to a user/community that can be color coded
Embed youtube/invidious/peertube that pins on scroll
- When opening a thread with a link to a youtube/peertube/inividious link have it embed and play in the app and when you go to the comments have the video stay pinned on top so you can keep watching while scrolling through the comments
I haven’t seen anyone mention this yet, but the biggest feature for me would be an automatic redirect to your current instance if you click on a fedi link to another instance
It’s annoying when someone links a post from another instance, and I click the link but I can’t interact since I’m not logged in on that URL
Basically, if you’re on one instance and click on a link to a post from another instance, it should open that post on your current instance. The desktop version of Lemmy needs this too.
This is really my biggest point of contention with the fediverse atm. Needs to be easier to interact across instances without copying, pasting, editing, or typing in URLs
When using lemmy in the browser, there are some userscripts that do this.
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/469273-lemmy-universal-link-switcherbut I would love to see this as sort of default behavior, so that the user indeed does not have to “fight” the system to get it to subscribe properly.
