Follow or bookmark users. Option to always open posts in new tab and disallow opening in same tab. Ability to run my own language specific instance, which allows usernames and community names written in other writing systems.
Option to always open posts in new tab and disallow opening in same tab.
Middle mouse button click will do that on Firefox and Chromium on Linux and I’d assume other platforms, if you’re not aware.
I open almost everything in almost all sites in a new tab.
Lemmy gold. /s
I’d love multi communities. So you can maybe have a community mirror posts from another. Perhaps they can do this to avoid the fragmentations
Lemmy is decentralized. Fragmentation is a good thing because it makes cyberspace mimic real space. Glomming every discussion of X topic into one discussion of X topic isn’t necessarily a positive.
The problem is that there are so many different ideas to do that that I doubt they are anywhere close to reaching a consensus. There was the user created multi-communities idea, another about moderators being able to subscribe a community to another, and a few others.
Here is the main discussion:
I might be missing this each time I check, but what is different about sublinks? Visually the demo looks the same
Is it a front-end that’s easier to contribute to? Can instances come back to Lemmy if it doesn’t work out?
It’s a replacement for the Lemmy backend. It’s designed to be API-compatible initially so existing Lemmy clients, including Lemmy-UI can just plug right in.
I see
How would this compare efficiency wise, because my understanding was that Lemmys backend was very efficient and that was a big advantage
It’s in Java, so there’s that overhead. But mostly, it’s less about “efficiency at all costs” and more about maintainability, being easier to contribute to / review, and having a less toxic development community. It’s got more developers working on it than Lemmy, and it’s in a language more people are familiar with (Java). It’s roadmap is also not constrained by the viewpoints of a small group of fairly, uh, controversial figures.
After the 1:1 compatibility phase is over, they’re both free to and planning to implement more features that the Lemmy devs either won’t or can’t be arsed to do.
Sublinks will be scalable, so every instance with any size can just scale to their need.
I see, thanks for the info :)
Java is a fucking awful language.
Java is an good old joker. You can use that perfectly almost everywhere. Everyone knows it, understands it and its readable. Because of it, Sublinks can get more developers into the project and develop the project more quicker and there are more eyes looking over the code. In comparison lemmy has active like 3-4 active developers. Sublinks is currently at 5-6 active and 10 at their peak. And every developer can learn java quicker than the hipster language rust.
Hipster language? It’s a lot more popular than you suggest.
I’m new to lemmy, so I could be missing some context, but you arent making a very good pitch with this post. Java is a downgrade from rust, and unless I’m reading wrong you seem to suggest they are planning to deliberately introduce new features into this java implementation as a way to break up the network on purpose, which would make lemmy instances obsolete, and you sort of present it as a good thing and suggest its a deliberate political move on behalf of sublinks. But you didn’t even explain in your post why lemmy exactly needs to be replaced. So you are calling lemmy toxic, but already this new project is just seeming very underhanded and manipulative by its very existence. As a user who just wants a better reddit alternative, reading this post makes me feel like I stumbled upon a project motivated by a grudge (just based on the way it’s phrased) and you leave me more inclined to speak out against it than endorse it, since it seems like an attempt to divide the network, and I’ve seen what happens to divided networks where instances have different features and refuse to work together (just look at XMPP). So unless you can explain what is wrong with lemmy’s development or roadmap I think everybody reading this should be very skeptical of sublinks and cautious of the threat posed by projects like this in general.
having a less toxic development community
What exactly do you mean by “toxic development community”? I’ve heard some critique of Lemmy developers for being tankies but I’ve never heard something like this about Lemmy.
I don’t want this to become a rant thread, but the devs have frequently told contributors “No one is forcing you to develop for Lemmy”. That’s but one example.
Can you point to any examples? Genuinely curious.
I was really looking forward to scaled sorting on Lemmy, but it didn’t quite live up to my expectations. I thought it would be like the “top” sort but with more diversity, but it ended up feeling more like the “new” sort with most posts having just a single vote.
Right now I’m not particularly excited about any upcoming features. The last release had some great additions.
I wish there was a roadmap for Lemmy so I could anticipate future releases like I do with other projects.
It would also be great to have nightly builds for testing new features before they’re officially released on most instances.
I wish there was some feature in the works to let me see less memes and US politics without having to block or subscribe to a bunch of communities.
I think that I’d probably just aim to find interesting communities and subscribe.
Right now, community discoverability is really bad in Lemmy. But Lemmy Explorer lets you browse a list of communities across all instances, which is probably more like what most people are wanting:
https://lemmyverse.net/communities
Hit Lemmy Explorer, look for communities that are interesting, subscribe to those.
I guess it’d also be possible for someone – not even the lemmy project necessarily, third-party – to try to do a Web front-end, recommend posts across all communities based on what you want – but that’s kinda a non-community-centric model, and I think that Reddit and lemmy/kbin are kinda fundamentally community-centric. With their model, it actually has some…problems to just send people to random communities. Kbin had (probably still has) a feature to randomly throw some posts in the sidebar to help people discover new communities. That quickly ran into some issues:
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Some people really don’t want certain types of random content showing up in their sidebar, like NSFW content (especially if people have forgotten to flag it as NSFW).
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Some people don’t pay attention to the community they’re in. Kbin’s random recommendations results in kbin sending a bunch of random users into random (sometimes quite niche) communities and sometimes those people don’t pay much attention to the instance or community. I remember seeing some random kbin user go to something like technology@pawb.social – a furry instance – and comment disparagingly on how there were multiple furries in the discussion. A bunch of responses later along the “why are you even in this community if you have an issue with furries”, people figured out that it was someone being randomly thrown into the thing. I think that randomly injecting people into communities can kind of cause frictions.
Any recommendation system is inevitably – especially if the Threadiverse grows a lot – going to have people game it to try to ram things they want to promote in front of people’s eyeballs. And if the recommendation algorithm is open-source, even easier. With a community-centric approach, the mods can handle that, but if you’re looking at posts from random communities, not so much.
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kw blocking
Yeah keyword, tag or regex blocking would be nice. Something like this: Filter for Hiding Unwanted Content
Option to add tags when posting so that people can block/subscribe according to their preferences beyond selecting whole communities.
Those issues seem to be closed without completion.
Having the ability for communities to follow other communities so we could have them less tied to instances. I remember a spec for that being drafted, but I’m not sure what happened to it.
Some sort of community interlinking would be great. There a dozens of duplicate and deserted communities that could all be linked up into a common feed without actually merging them. Sort of a federation within the federation system
/cs/ and have it a list of ©ommunitie(s) like reddit allows with groups. That would be nice. At first, there might be a lot of re-posts as people get used to it.
Separate admin vs mod reports.
The current feature set is fine with me. I hate it when my social media platforms change in their behavior.
My preference would be for no new features.
I understand that makes for a difficult call when there’s a development team who’s been dedicated to a project.
In app notifications or emails for reports to mods. I honestly can’t believe this hasn’t been addressed. If someone knows something I don’t, please correct me.
Micro blogging, full profile / post /msg federation. Follow among leminals n mastodon
Micro blogging
Kbin has microblogging.
At least for me, though, microblogging on the Fediverse kinda misses the thing that makes Twitter interesting.
I don’t really want to microblog. And I don’t really like following individuals, the microblog model.
But for certain things, Twitter’s search engine – it can do full-text search – is extremely useful – anything someone puts in immediately is indexed and the whole thing can be searched. Combine that with retweets, and it’s a really powerful tool to find new content that someone is putting up. Reddit has a community-centric approach, which is great if you want to talk about a given topic over time. But for more-transient situations – say, a national disaster – Twitter does a great job of pulling lots of readers and people posting content together very quickly.
Hide post and multiple images
The ability to link to things without triggering spam hysteria again.
The ability to sort by controversial and most downvoted.
Controversial was added on 0.19 release. This is the pull request.
Still doesn’t show up on lemmy.world UI though.
that’s because lemmy.world is still on 0.18, but it will be upgraded in two days
Thanks for that information, and I appreciate the downvotes for making a perfectly valid statement at the given time.
Reddit Lemmy Enhancement Suite. Loved RES for it’s ability to tag users, style tweaks, and all the other functions on that other site, would be awesome to see it here as well.
Yep, RES was pretty awesome. I seem to recall having engaged them and suggested something similar when things were going down and they didn’t have much interest.
Would probably be a ground-up project considering the APIs and element tags are almost certainly all different and don’t map 1:1 reliably. That’s not a point against doing it, just an observation that it doesn’t have to be tied to the original.
