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Some way of grouping Communities other than by name (not very useful). E.G. search on 'Climate' and you don't get the name of one of the busiest communities.
In other words, group them a step up the taxonomy. Create 10 or 15 groups (sci/tech, history, music, culture, media, nature, issues, locations....), see what mods have to say about that list. (Could do worse than the Wikipedia taxonomy.)
lemmy:// (or fediverse://) protocol, to make linking content, users, communities, etc more universal across instances, apps, etcI've said before, but part of my biggest gripe with Lemmy is the process of curating a decent feed. A lot of new users will see the mess of posts in All, including political extremists, an ever growing list of fetish porn communities, and bottom of the barrel shitposts, and they won't be interested in spending a couple hours blocking and subscribing to things before the feed is usable.
One way to address this is to give instance admins better tools to curate a default subscriptions and block list for their users. Allow admins to create what they think is the most accessible feed, but also allow users to customize it as they see fit.
I whitelist rather than blacklist. I browse Subscribed normally. I think that under the existing system, that's the only realistic way to scale. Hit lemmyverse.net or similar periodically to look for new, interesting communities, but the whole thing is gonna be a firehose.
I do understand that BlueSky has some sort of "curated lists" feature that sounds interesting, and I've thrown around some ideas around having curation decoupled from community/instance bans and global voting.
I love the Old Lemmy webiste, I wish there was a way to incorporate a RES type of extension for Lemmy
I mean, it's doable now, but I think that the limiting factor is just the userbase. More developers using the platform, more people interested in writing code for browser extensions.
There is a lemmy/kbin assistant extension for Firefox, which is far, far more basic than RES, but provides one critical feature that I regularly use -- being able to view a post on one's home instance. So people have done work on these.
Also, if by "Old Lemmy", you mean mlmym, that's not merely the website. It's an alternate Web UI that instances can run alongside the regular one. My home instance does so at https://old.lemmy.today/
EDIT: Your home instance does as well, at https://old.lemmy.world/
Reddit Markdown lets one use italics inside links, like so:
I like [the author of *A Game of Thrones*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_R._R._Martin).
However, Lemmy does not presently support this syntax, renders it as:
I like the author of A Game of Thrones.
I frequently want to have partially-styled links like this, particularly italics.
EDIT: Okay, I just discovered that apparently this has been implemented since the last time I tried it. Thanks, devs!
In frontends, I'd like to have the option to not show displaynames, or at least show real usernames next to displaynames.
If you want to reference a user using @username@instance syntax, you need to know their username, and while the displaynames can be cute, I've just never seen a really compelling argument for them. I also haven't seen anyone abusing them yet, but they seem likely to be trouble from a "trying to impersonate someone else" standpoint.
option to get notifications when a post or a comment subtree gets a new comment. Especially (but not only) useful for your own posts, and for when you have commented on a topic whereyou are interested in not only the direct responses, but in the overall discussion.
to handle deleted content better: when a post or a comment is deleted, keep them openable, to still have the context readable
When you ask OP a question, then someone says "I'd like to know, too!" and OP only replies to the comment under yours.
and only I get notified. and only for that reply, if discussion continues in deeper replies I won't get notified
Linking one of the AO3 tag tutorials because tagging? is extremely powerful.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/41214669?view_full_work=true
Ability to search Saved Posts, and RSS for them too like Reddit has.
I save a lot of handy things on Lemmy but it’s really difficult to find them again later. It also seems to sort by original post creation date instead of when I saved them so this makes it even more difficult to find later.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Aenhancement
(I think that's the official list.)
Allow me to upvote posts and comments within search.
Super-compact mode for posts.
Allow me to upvote posts and comments within search.
Tesseract and Photon both allow that :)
Maybe others, too, but I'm most familiar with those two since I've been involved in their development (and they're my daily drivers).
Spoiler posts
What would that involve? I mean, you can already have spoiler sections in post body text.
Detect AI prompts attached to images and not strip them from images on upload the way other EXIF data is.
Stripping EXIF location data to help keep people from being doxxed is one thing, but AI image generators try to make images with metadata to indicate that the images are AI generated, which helps avoid using them for training and lets people inspect how images are created. As of now, that gets stripped on upload. It's particularly obnoxious over in !imageai@sh.itjust.works.
EDIT: Even nicer would be the option to leave EXIF location data attached, and merely warn a user at upload time about location data and provide the option to strip it, as I can certainly imagine communities where people would really like to be able to include precise location data with their images.
Make it easier to join.