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?
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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-switcher
but 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.
The ability to copy the URL of a video so I can paste it to NewPipe - or a setting where I can choose to use YouTube or NewPipe all red the time.
User option to block Lemmy server/instance
Quick Scroll
Mute words
Notes
Embed youtube/invidious/peertube that pins on scroll
I’m mostly waiting for marking posts as read as you scroll by and hiding read posts (but only in your feed). I think this is especially important with the federated content that might come in later than when I “scrolled past” the point in time it would appear in my feed.
“come in later”? You want a feed that live updates?
Being able to jump back a page without snapping to the top is the only issue I have with the PWA set up I’ve got. Otherwise it’s great as is.
Honestly, Memmy works pretty amazingly… I was surprised, because last time I tried it it was… empty. It’s REALLY good now.
Ability to choose the default sort for comments
keyword filters, so you can avoid posts about “trump” or “hitler” and other things that annoy you
For web: better theming, for app: i18n, for both: much smoother subscription to other instances.
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.
I want the ability to login to any given Lemmy instance with another instance’s account. Kind of like how I can login to various sites using a Google account. I think it would be fantastic if I could login to say, Beehaw.org with my Programming.dev account. That way if I’m perusing Beehaw.org directly I don’t have to worry about having my own account there or finding that community back at Programming.dev (and waiting for the subscription to update); I can just login with an existing Lemmy account from some other instance.
If a Lemmy instance is already federating with an instance where I have an account I don’t see any reason why this would cause content/moderation problems.
Multi-lemmy. I really miss having my custom feeds made with the multi reddit tool,.
This would be so useful to group related communities from different instances as well.
Apart from the ones already mentioned,
For your 2nd point, I made a script. It works with arrows so you may or may not like it. Also I see a PR was opened yesterday on Lemmy-ui for J-K navigation
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
Subscribe to whole instances, not just individual communities, that are not Federated by the instance my account is logged into.
Easily block communities from the ALL feed, without 3 or 4 clicks
For point two, Connect for Lemmy just added a block button from the three dot menu on the feed.