Allow multiple groups per post (use them like tags). This would have some interesting implications regarding moderation and the handling of replies to the said post.
Having multiple identical posts in different groups with distributed replies doesn’t feel ideal to me.
Having multiple identical posts in different groups with distributed replies doesn’t feel ideal to me.
I think this is actually a feature. You’re essentially trying to centralize communities, but communities are decentralised just like instances.
Why do we have multiple Technology communities? Because some people might like the mods or the rules in the other community better or maybe you can’t even access one of the communities because your instance is defederated from the instance with that community.
Just as one admin doesn’t have monopoly on the Fediverse, no mod has monopoly on a community.
I proposed an extension of the feature set. The current behaviour is still possible. You can use the added feature but you don’t have to.
The issue for me: The current landscape in lemmy has a lot of sparsely filled groups - I do not browse by group (filter by subscribed or all and sorted by new or hot).
In this view multiple identical posts with distributed replies are shown. This adds redundancy in the comments and reduces clarity.
Edit: The idea rises the question, how the ownership (or relation) of a post to the group and its replies should be handled. Using an x-post-like approach is just one idea.
Reports categories based on both the community, the instance of the community + the user to reduce report noise between mod actions and admin actions.
Post tags, to label content within a community.
Better language support, clearly indicating which ones are allowed when submitting something in the language dropdown, as well as basic language detection support.
When the instance is using pictrs, add a section in the user’s settings to see all the uploaded pictures in that account, with the ability to delete any of them.
Better accessibility / a11y support for uploaded images with alt-text.
Support for svg-based emojis
For mods, the ability to make a pinned post made by one of the mods editable by other mods, which would be useful for FAQs, etc.
The ability to subscribe/follow a specific user, not just communities.
Passkeys support as a 2FA method.
Some basic builtin automod action, such as blocking known keywords from spammers from being posted, not just showing as removed as when using the slur filter in the admin settings.
EDIT: Something I just thought of
A URI protocol handler to refer to communities, users, post and comments in an instance-independant way (ie: lemmy://u/[email protected], lemmy://c/[email protected], lemmy://c/[email protected]/p/1234567) or another syntax that makes more sense. That way you could let the OS redirect the query to the software of your choice, and define your home instance there.
Now there are some issues to figure out before defining the URI handler, like how to refer to a post or comment that will redirect to the appropriate one on your home instance since post and comment currently have a unique ID on each instance, which makes them hard to directly address without doing some kind of conversion.
Some kind of a chatroom integrated into the forum ?(might be a bad idea don’t sue me . ) for stupid fun and close connections like it could be really barebones with only basic functionality i just think it could be fun.