PSA: Two major points of criticism regarding Lemmy's user experience will be addressed soon
PSA: Two major points of criticism regarding Lemmy's user experience will be addressed soon
Firstly, there is the unstoppable flood of new posts that are added while browsing "All". Although this doesn't happen when using the Jerbea app, it sometimes renders "All" unusable in the browser.
This will be resolved once websockets are removed with the next update:
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3008
Secondly, the issue of the same posts being displayed for days under "Hot". There is already a pull request for this, so it has been fixed and just needs to be implemented:
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3076
Now, the only remaining points for me are:
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Links to external instances should automatically be transformed when opened so that one can participate with the account of their own instance. For example, lemmy.world/c/memes should automatically become feddit.de/c/[email protected].
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Communities from different instances should be able to merge, allowing users to see the content of all communities across different instances.
You're viewing a single thread.
Merging communities might be hard, but maybe redirecting a community to another instance? this would also allow people to move communities from one instance to another, which would allow large communities to have dedicated instances, or to consolidate related communities under the same instance.
Allowing communities to exist across multiple instances is going to be a nightmare now that I think about it, like how will moderation work? I can already see it becoming a new way to spam. Create your own lemmy instance, spam a post, and make it so that no one can delete it. It'll cause instances to disable open federation, which would mean we'll end up with only a few allowed instances
should be fairly easy: send invite to same community on other instance, after merge instances will sync community, moderators will merge.
But this might bring other problems
That's destroying the whole point of federation, at that point you might as well have everything on one website
You subscribe to a instance of a community.
Then within that community interface should be a list of all external instances of the same name,
that you can just click all the check boxes to sub to those too,You now have a feed of that instance name that pulls from all of the instances,
and you can opt out of individual instances being in your feed, of ones where moderation is particularly bad for that particular instance.
So if I find /m/memes here on kbin... sub to it, then within that sub, I should see a list of
[email protected]
[email protected]
memes@lemmywhatever
memes@shitworksand I can click check boxes or auto-sub to them all.
and when I go to /m/memes, I would see posts from all memes@xxxxxxx, but I could also uncheck [email protected] if I'm finding a lot of lemmy.ml posts are not being moderated well
In the future, that list may be ridiculous in size, so add a filter option that it only shows instances that meet a threshold of users or subs.
Example, only show memes@xxxxxxx of instances that have > 1000 users... or maybe 10000 users. eventually you'll get a useable list of the most popular instances only.
It wouldn't be much different than a filter system on a typical game server browser...
I think multi reddits (which are a highly requested feature now) could be used as a decent compromise.
Basically imagine users can group communities together into one mini-feed. This could be used for similar communities across multiple instances, like [email protected] and [email protected]. Call them multi-lemmies or subscription groups or web rings or whatever.
Then, what if moderators could cooperate create their own recommended feeds that users can subscribe to? Maybe even put a link to it next to the "Subscribe" link in the sidebar. If users of both communities are encouraged to sign up for the multi-lemmy, then everybody can see everybody else's content in one combined feed without having to cross-post.
Posts are still hosted on their home instance, so there's no extra work for moderators except over agreeing which other communities can join the ring. If a user doesn't want to see a particular community for whatever reason, they can still subscribe/unsubscribe to specific communities like before. That way we get the best of both federation and similar communities sharing content.