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?
Multi-lemmy. I really miss having my custom feeds made with the multi reddit tool,.
For web: better theming, for app: i18n, for both: much smoother subscription to other instances.
Ability to choose the default sort for comments
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
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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”?
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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 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.
Being able to add the Dracula theme. That’s it, I miss it from Infinity </3
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.
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.
- 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.
