I’ve explored a few platforms within the Fediverse, but most of them seem to be inspired by and mimic existing mainstream social media platforms like Twitter, Reddit, and Facebook. While this familiarity can be comforting, I can’t help but wonder if there are any truly innovative and original platforms out there that offer a...
Please post one top-level comment per complaint about Lemmy. You can reply with ideas or links to existing GitHub issues that could address the complaints. This will help identify both common complaints and potential solutions....
I stopped using Lemmy due to instances blocking each other. I wanted to view content from specific instances, but none of the instances between the most popular ones allowed me to see all the content. I had to create multiple accounts, which made navigating between them cumbersome. This experience was more frustrating for me than any issues I’ve encountered on Reddit. I believe users should have more freedom to choose the content they see without having to create their own instance or manage multiple accounts. I was hopeful that this would change with user instance blocking implementation, but I feel validated in my decision after seeing that it hasn’t.
It certainly doesn’t help that Lemmy had and still has absolutely no sensible way to actually surface niche communities to its subscribers. Unlike Reddit, it doesn’t weigh posts by their relative popularity within the community but only by total popularity/popularity within the instance. There’s also zero form of community grouping (like Reddit’s multireddits) - all of which effectively eliminates all niche communities from any sensible main view mode and floods those with shitty memes and even shittier politics only. This pretty much suffocated the initially enthusiastic niche tech communities I had subscribed to. They stood no chance to thrive and their untimely death was inevitable.
There are some very tepid attempts to remedy this in upcoming Lemmy builds, but I fear it’s too little too late.
I fear that Lemmy was simply nowhere near mature enough when it mattered and it has been slowly bleeding users and content ever since. I sincerely hope I’m wrong, though.
Moving user profile to a new instance #1985: Provide the ability for users to migrate their account and all associated data (posts, comments, moderation actions, saved posts, etc.) from one Lemmy instance to another. This would allow users to move freely between instances without losing their online identity, history, and credibility built up over time on a previous instance.
It’s crazy when I see this super popular issues closed without completion by the main devs. It makes me feel like they don’t care at all about user feedback.
Profile Privacy Settings #4223: Allow users to control who can view their profile feed/activity, with options like public, visible only to friends/followers, or completely private.
Federating communities is a manual process so in smaller instances you don’t see as much content as in larger ones since there aren’t many users subscribing to external communities.
I had to toggle between show and hide read posts all the time for the same reason but I don’t think having a read posts section would be any simpler than toggling the setting.
Users often have difficulty finding specific posts or content they’ve previously seen on social media platforms. The current tagging/hashtag systems on platforms like Twitter are limited and don’t provide adequate organization and searchability. Additionally, many users want more granular content filtering options beyond just binary NSFW/NSFL flags.
Proposed Solution
Implement a comprehensive, flexible tagging system similar to platforms like Safebooru, with the following functionality:
Allow users to add multiple tags to posts to categorize content.
Enable advanced search capabilities to find posts by including/excluding tag combinations (e.g. tag1 AND tag2 but NOT tag3).
User-controlled blacklists in settings to filter out unwanted content based on tags.
Provide communities/instances ability to configure tagging permissions (unrestricted, privileged user, or moderator-only tagging).
Make tags editable by post authors for a set period after posting.
Allow privileged users/moderators to add new tags and edit/delete existing tags.
Moderation features like edit history, user trust levels or voting to accept or reject new tags.
Benefits
Improved content discovery and rediscovery
Enhanced content organization
Granular feed customization by including/excluding tags
Personalized filtering of sensitive/undesirable content
Community participation in curation process
Incentives and gamification (e.g. leaderboards for top taggers)
Tags are non disruptive metadata, hashtags are just spam
Additional Ideas
User-specific personal tag sets visible only to that user
Allow following specific tags for notifications
Mandatory tags (e.g. SFW/NSFW) configured per community/instance
Tag synonym support to consolidate similar tags
Autocomplete suggestions when adding tags
Track percentage of user’s liked posts per tag in user stats
Use tag percentages for user affinity matching
Implementation
New tags database table(s) to store tags, names, descriptions, languages
API endpoints for CRUD operations on tags
UI components for adding/editing tags on posts
Search functionality to query posts by tag combinations
User settings for tag blacklists/filtering
Trust system and edit history for moderation
Optional gamification with leaderboards
The proposed tagging system aims to vastly improve content organization, discovery, and personalized filtering capabilities compared to basic hashtags or binary flags. It provides flexibility for communities to tailor permissions while empowering users to curate their experience.
I’ve been making homemade pizza for a while now, but I feel like I’ve hit a plateau with my pie quality. I think it’s time to learn some new tricks!...
I wanted to share my pizza making journey with you all, in hopes that it might inspire or help someone who’s just starting out or looking to improve their own pizza game.
I started out making pan pizzas using pizza flour, which is high in yeast and allows for a quick, one-hour dough. The result was a pizza that was pretty tough, not at all the soft, fluffy texture that I like.
After some research and experimentation, I switched to a flour with a higher protein content and reduced the amount of yeast I was using. I also started a 48-hour cold fermentation process. The difference was night and day! My pizzas became much softer and fluffier, a huge improvement over my initial attempts.
I tried my hand at Neapolitan style pizza using a pizza oven, but I found sourcing the right ingredients locally to be a challenge. Plus, the pizza would char if I took my eyes off it for even a second. So, I ended up gravitating towards New York style pizza, which I found to be more forgiving and easier to manage.
One thing that has remained constant throughout my pizza making journey is my sauce. I prefer a cooked sauce over the often-recommended raw tomato sauce. I cook mine with garlic, olive oil, dried oregano, dried basil, powdered onion, and bicarbonate. The canned tomatoes that I use contain salt and citric acid, which is why I use sodium bicarbonate instead of salt, to counter the acid. The result is a rich, flavorful sauce that really elevates the pizza.
There are a few resources that have been instrumental in my pizza making journey:
The Pizza Bible: The World’s Favorite Pizza Styles, from Neapolitan, Deep-Dish, Wood-Fired, Sicilian, Calzones and Focaccia to New York, New Haven, Detroit, and More Hardcover by Tony Gemignani
I hope my journey and these resources can help you on your own pizza making journey. Happy baking!
Are there any innovative platforms in the Fediverse?
I’ve explored a few platforms within the Fediverse, but most of them seem to be inspired by and mimic existing mainstream social media platforms like Twitter, Reddit, and Facebook. While this familiarity can be comforting, I can’t help but wonder if there are any truly innovative and original platforms out there that offer a...
What are your complaints about Lemmy?
Please post one top-level comment per complaint about Lemmy. You can reply with ideas or links to existing GitHub issues that could address the complaints. This will help identify both common complaints and potential solutions....
How to recover files from corrupted NTFS drive?
I’ve formated a drive as NTFS and moved some files into it, then after restarting I got the error...
What resources helped you step up your home pizza game?
I’ve been making homemade pizza for a while now, but I feel like I’ve hit a plateau with my pie quality. I think it’s time to learn some new tricks!...
What do you like to do in your free time?
A Standalone Instance That Is Not Like The Rest Of Lemmy: Open Sign-ups
***Please DM me if you are interested ***...
What future AI applications are you most excited about?
Andalusian olive oil cake
Ingredients:...