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Discoverability; both with posts and following.

Also, nuclear blocking and feeds/lists are two things that Bluesky gets right.

Marketplace. I would love to see the fediverse put Amazon store out of business. …I know, I know…delusional. But wouldn’t it be cool?

We could be nicer.

I hope you all have a good week.

Onboarding is a nightmare. Any other changes we make are pointless until we address onboarding.

The biggest thing for me is searchability. After a post is off the feed, it may as well be deleted. God help you if you're looking for something new, like a guide or help post. Most of the Fediverse is unindexed by search engines, and the built-in Lemmy search makes Reddit search look like Google in it's prime. I know PieFed has helpped a bit by adding flairs, so you can at least sort by that, but to my knowledge thats about as far as anyone has gone trying to address this.

Consolidated frontend for communities to federate their own community with.
Stop with 20 different versions of memes.
One channel to federate the community to a common feed.
And mods may police the feed as they see fit.

The Fediverse could improve how things are shared. If I wanted to share your post with a friend, I'll give them this link: https://piefed.ca/c/asklemmy/p/424338/what-do-you-feel-the-fediverse-could-improve-on.

If they're also on the same instance as me (Piefed.ca), then all's good. But God forbid they're on another instance and they want to comment or vote on your post. They would have to go back to their own instance, find this community, and then search for this specific post.

And I know some of you guys are itching to tell me about using a browser extension/script or another front-end to fix this, but this should be officially integrated with every front-end. I don't understand why there still hasn't been any integration with something like Threadiverse.

How can a social media grow if you can't even share posts properly?

Less of a problem on lemmy but mastodon has a lot of accounts posting anime pictures that are not necessarily illegal but are weird - like children dressed as animals or with animal features.

Not sure if there's anything you can do about people just being weird but often other users will boost a different post by the account, which will be a meme or something, so the accounts end up on your timeline. If you click through to see more similar memes you get greeted with a profile where they are clearly not a teen but are pretending to be one or similar...

idk I suppose my complaint is that the culture is overly tolerant of creepy behaviour.

I think having open modlogs is great for transparency.

People will routinely play innocent after saying gross shit, getting rid of the record will only make it harder to call out bad actors.

I prefer the way blocks work, if someone is talking shit they cant just block the people calling them out.

User profiles could be a little bit more consistent and cleaner and allow for better interlinking and descriptions. I currently have my main profile at mastodon and I just link my other profiles there, but whether linking back there works from those profiles is anyone's guess.

It's a bit of a toss-up what profile text even supports on any particular service, sometimes it's even dependant on what the client decides to do. Some allow Mastodon-style custom fields, some don't. Some allow you to (e.g.) put links to your other profiles, some just render whatever you put there as a text - except, say, on some mobile client for some reason, where it decides to link mastodon-style user names. Some services are ridiculously minimalist (looking at you, Pixelfed - I know the main focus is on the user galleries, but oh no, how dare I want to learn anything about the people who take the photos).

Also you see things like people putting long alt-texts of their profile pics and banner pics in the descriptions - folks, wouldn't it be cooler if the software supported actual alt-text for those?

When I block someone, I want to be a ghost to them. I want them to not see anything I’ve said and I wouldn’t want to see anything they’ve said either. I don’t want to block them and find out they engage me on an alt just with things to continue the bullshit with.

Unenforcible without Real ID Verification.

I could just have a dormant account in a different Tor Session and it would be unlinkable to me.

If you block me, I could use that account to browse and still see you.

I could have 10 or 100 of these alts.

(Hypothetically speaking of course, I don't have the energy to do all that stuff, I always lists every alt in my profile)

I’m new here. I’d like to be able to find communities by size (ie. locate the ones that actually are used).

Why is it in my many decades of online discussion I have never blocked anyone, yet I see people who somehow think they need it?

Why?

You cant just move on or ignore them? I find it so weird.

I think there needs to be a higher emphasis on real life community building instead of recreating the services that destroyed communities.

We don't need another twitter clone. We need a marketplace and volunteer organizing software.

• Starter Packs in the MicroBlogVerse (Which is coming to Mastodon!)
• Multis in the ThreadiVerse (Which is also coming to Lemmy!)

I wish I could block community categories, like anything associated with news could be blocked once instead of having to block dozens of individual communities.

Specific to Lemmy, I'd like to see cross-posts get combined. The problem I'm seeing with Lemmy as a whole is everyone wants to submit new topics but not so much comment on others. And it doesn't help when you're browsing /all and someone has posted the same exact thing to like 15 different instances (same community across different instances, I mean). So... which do I reply to, assuming my instance wasn't posted on? World? ML? SJW? Hexbear? Those are the big ones I see. So, I think when someone posts to, say, AskLemmy, it should show them a list of all federated Ask Lemmy communities, and they should be able to uncheck the ones they don't want it crossposted to. And then you would only see one, because they would be connected, and all the replies would be in one place. This would do 2 things. One, it would declutter /all (and make OP look less like a spammer); two, it would encourage conversation. You just reply and it posts to the crosspost on your instance (or lets you choose one). Then, if one instance is defederated, only those top level comments disappear, but the rest of the conversation is preserved.

Exposure maybe? How to attract new eyeballs. Idk how either.

When I block someone, I want to be a ghost to them.

Depends how one defines 'blocking', maybe?

I mean, when I block someone (which I do from time to time) it's because I don't want to see whatever they can say or post. I don't care the slightest that they can read what I write, nor do I care what they can say about it either. I just don't want to be bothered by them. They could say the worst thing they want about me, that's fine provided their noise does not reach me ;)

I think moderation logs to be open is a bad idea

To me it relates to the idea that users, all of us, are supposed to be responsible and reasonable persons. The kind that is able to face unpleasant facts, words, and people too. Very much unlike users in most closed source/walled-garden social media that are treated like little children that need to be protected from everything, even their own shadow.

Alas, if the idea is great the reality is a little less so and not all of us are able to deal with... our own emotions when facing unpleasant things. Still, no matter how not perfect it is, I think it's worth promoting that approach. Even if it has a (real) cost.

When I block someone, I want to be a ghost to them. I want them to not see anything I’ve said and I wouldn’t want to see anything they’ve said either. I don’t want to block them and find out they engage me on an alt just with things to continue the bullshit with.

They can already do this if you block them even if they can't see what you say. Especially on the Fediverse where people can just create alternative accounts on different instance.

I think the Fediverse has corrected that aspect that, when you log off, you can’t see shit. So it prevents that. Though that’s practiced from the instance I’m on for all I know.

Yes, this is purely your instance. You can see content logged out on most instances.

Furthermore and this is a bit of a controversial part, is that, I think moderation logs to be open is a bad idea. Again, it is to me, just one more thing to add to the fuel of a fire that isn’t being let to wind down. Because people often jab and joust at others with shit like “LOOK WHUT U DID IN THUH MODERATION LOG!” and that just does nothing but escalate.

This is you very much. Open moderator logs massively increase community moderator transparency in the long-run.

A global landing page that let's people join from, asks them some basic questions and selects a server based on those answers wall while explaining in laymen's tense why. Then when the user finishes signing up presents them with a printable page of their login (user ID, server, etc.) for them to keep in their records and a button to take them straight in.

Hell, add fediserach somewhere in there as well.

People need an information kiosk

I would also like to see custom feeds in lemmy

I'd like a softer block, like an auto collapse or hide their posts but not the comments. An anti-shitposting tool.

I'd like it if there were little indications about whether post OP upvoted or downvoted a comment, and whether the author of a comment I'm replying to upvoted or downvoted my reply.