What are the biggest upgrades/fixes that you would like to see done to Lemmy?
For me its having a single instance that indexes all the communites to which all other instances can then pull that information from so when I go searching for communities the I’ll have access to every single one with needing to post the entire URL in the search bar
I would love to have tags added that I could search at across instances. So looking up #animalpics might be all the communities that post pictures of animals
Then add to that the ability to follow that tag like you can on Mastadon and that would solve some of the "Super Community" asks.
That works easily when you want to join communities already on your instance. But if you want to search for other communities you need to go to https://browse.feddit.de/, search for them there, copy the url, then join. Also you cant sort that list by anything, you kinda need to know what you are looking for.
Its....a bit too complicated. I'm sure it will get better with time.
This is my number one wish as well. I'm well aware that people can archive or snapshot my comments/content, and the site can keep backup servers, and that we should assume that things we post online should be treated as if it were there forever, but no one can convince me that any of these situations is remotely comparable to not being able to delete my own public-facing content.
It's also the number one concern I've heard from people on reddit who are considering migrating to Lemmy, but are undecided.
I really wish they'd fix this.
Software engineer here. Historically we started not hard-deleting anything because sometimes software does bad things and we never want to accidentally delete anything that could be important since then the only way to undo it is to restore the database from a backup. So it's better/safer to literally not allow the application to ever delete anything from the database.
That being said, I could see an option in ActivityPub to delete comments, but with the distributed nature of Lemmy you would have to trust every server you federate with to listed to the protocol and delete the comments too since they are stored on the other servers as well.
Trust of federated servers isn’t the issue. We already trust federated servers to publish the text we wrote and not some alternative version the owner wanted us to say.
The problem is instance owners don’t even have the option to obey deletion requests. They want to help delete your content but they cannot.
The whole “what’s the point of building it if there’s a possibility one dude doesn’t obey the request” is whataboutism.
I'm not saying we shouldn't be able to hard delete comments, I'm just explaining why the Lemmy developers might not have started with hard-deleting comments. I agree with you we should have the option and it should propagate regardless of any instance settings.
My point in mentioning other servers not deleting your comments is that ActivityPub is an open standard. Technically someone can write a Lemmy competitor that federates with your instance and does not implement the hard deletion of comments. It's allowable under the protocol. That doesn't mean the feature isn't worth implementing, it just means there are caveats to "this comment disappears off the Internet forever" like we'd like.
Being able to mark post as read, and have them be hidden from my feed. Or hide posts I have upvoted/downvoted.
Also it would be really nice to have the ability to group communities together from my view point. So instead of a single lemmy feed with all of my subscriptions mixed together I can have multiple feeds each based on say a single topic. Say I have a group called Gaming. and in that I have [email protected] and [email protected] [email protected] etc.. etc.. I think this would also help the issue with having similar communities on multiple instances. For example We have [email protected] [email protected] I could subscribe to both and just use a single group to view them both. Instead of having to view one at a time.
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By far my biggest thing is RES style keyboard shortcuts
The second for me is going to have to be automatic instance redirection
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