I started up my own instance and now I have realized that there’s no reason anyone would join mine instead of any other instance.

That’s no good. What neat stuff would the Fediverse like to see in a Lemmy instance?

  • Follow RSS feeds in your Lemmy feed? I have that already, in a way, but it would be nice to be able to do it for any feed automatically without it being clunky.
  • Follow Mastodon users? Or tags?
  • Embedded video? That seems costly.
  • Hackability? The ability to run your own customized front end? Or good scripting features in the browser console?
  • A better looking UI? This one is functional but it’s not pretty.
  • Better moderation? I have heard the Lemmy tools aren’t that good.
  • Something else?
  • ericjmorey@discuss.onlineEnglish
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    3 months ago

    The ability to ignore votes from other instances using an allow list. The ability to ignore votes in communities from unsubscribed accounts.

    I see that your not talking about a Lemmy instance but a ui of a Lemmy instance. I think the biggest improvement from a UI perspective is button placement and confirmation messages for actions.

    For instance, separate the delete post button from the edit post button and have a confirmation message for deleting a post so mistaken button presses aren’t permanently unrecoverable.

      • ericjmorey@discuss.onlineEnglish
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        3 months ago

        When did that get added? That’s great!

        Thanks for pointing that out.

        But the buttons being too close is still annoying. That’s only one example of buttons being too close too. A moderator can ban someone from a community and accidentally appoint that someone as a moderator. And confirmation messages for uncommon actions is just good UX too.

        I think there’s also a weird and inconsistent mix of buttons shown by default and hidden under a dropdown menu. There are many added clicks to do a lot of things for no gain.

        • Blaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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          3 months ago

          A while back, not sure when!

          I think there’s also a weird and inconsistent mix of buttons shown by default and hidden under a dropdown menu. There are many added clicks to do a lot of things for no gain.

          Definitely