easily subscribe links - like, click on it and then subscribe, not the current method (which totally functions but its cumbersome and unwieldly).
Karma
/s
I’m actually curious the reason why Lemmy does not have a karma equivalent.
I don’t miss it since I rarely checked my reddit karma but it does have pros and cons.
Karma might work on a per instance basis, but if implemented on a federation wide scale you’d have to trust every instance. It would be far too easy to artificially increase your karma with your own rogue instance just by editing the database.
User and post flares!
Ways to group communities to browse at once rather than just local, all, and subscribed. A multi-Lemmy if you will.
More for jerboa, but RIF had an option to confirm you want to go back/refresh feed. My palm accidentally hits the back button often, and I have to start scrolling back from the top.
Jerboa could use a hide post option from RedReader.
When people link other instances in posts or comments, it should automatically be translated to view it on your own instance instead of having to take it and search for it.
User flairs!
The ability to merge/join communities across instances. Right now, there’s lots of duplicated communities - which isn’t a big problem, but I feel that it’ll hinder adoption as it fragments the audience for a given topic.
Edit: also worth saying that it seems like that the if the instance hosting a community goes away, so does the community.
Yes, it is worth saying. In fact I was scrolling for this. There should be a way to adopt refugee communities with all its posts from other instances so as to not lose all the information when the server goes down for good. It needs consensus, but only from admins of original community and the new host, this last to prevent server abuse. Also, if communities can get merged, the list of instances hosting the community would serve both as redundant backup and as distributed (instead of fragmented) service.
Highlight new comments (if there’s already a way to do this please let me know as I’m brand new here)
Do you mean, sorting by new? This can be done in a specific post’s comments:
And in the global view: (It’s all in French, sorry 'bout that 😅)
From what I’ve seen, they pop up automatically and you can have notifications enabled in your browser.I meant more like when you re-open a thread you’ve read before and there are x new comments. It would be nice to have those comments highlighted so they’re easy to find. Sorting by new works but only for top level comments.
I’m used to it coming from Sync for Reddit. See the green comments with dots:
I’d like to be able to set the default view to sort by new in subscribed communities, currently it defaults back to active/local.
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Better ways to explore the communities available. Also maybe improving the Android app ecosystem.
You might like https://lemmyverse.net/
More of an app than a platform feature, but the ability to collapse all child comments.
On Jerboa at least you can do this by tapping on the comment
an ability to re-order search results, eg in the communities list page having it so that we can click on a column and have the results sort according to that column, or alphabetically or most recent.
and some way of filtering the results would be good as well
