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I would like to see recommendations for communities based on my communities. It’s not trivial to solve, but discoverability isn’t great right now.

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I guess the ‘simple’ way of doing this would be adding tags to communities like ‘art’ ‘hobbies’ ‘sport’ ‘football’ etc. This might then let the app suggest others based on the tags you are subscribed to.

It would probably still require some AI/analytics to work out the links based on user activity in different communities/tags but I think it would make it easier to group interests and promote smaller communities.

It could also improve Lemmy visibility in Masterdon if the tags are used as hashtags or something. (Would require more work)

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Kbin lists “related magazines” which are similar communities in the fediverse. Not sure how it works but I think it may be based on hashtags like this.

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Problem here is also that your instance may not know about all communities from the instances you’re connected to. This could probably also be improved.

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Yes, that’s what I mean by not trivial, a centralized system can do analysis like this a lot easier. But even on your own instance, they could find the N users with the most overlapping subscriptions and check which communities they follow to give you recommendations.

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Recommendation algorithms are a big reason for the enshitification of other social media. You don’t need to be connected to everything everywhere all at once. Enjoy your handful of small communities.

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I don’t want random posts to appear in my feed from communities I haven’t subscribed to, but I want to have a feature that shows me suggestions for communities when I ask for it. That’s a big difference. Right now it’s (too) hard to find these communities.

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Recommendation algorithms are fine as long as they’ce user-centric and opt-in.

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Hashtags could possibly help with this. When making a post, a user can add hashtags which categorize the content. One can then search hashtags, or subscribe to them to find new communities. Probably not as passive as you’d be looking for, though.

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Exactly this. I like how substack works and have no idea if it’s doable or not.

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An option to view all comments from crossposts when browsing a post. It’s annoying how you can see a post that’s been crossposted 5 times and wonder where the comments are.

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Reading some of these is making me really appreciate @ernest.

We have this one, it’s handy. There’s a list of crossposts and how many comments each has, you can click to where the acive discussions are.

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Oh hey, I had no idea ernest was back. Great to have him back.

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Yeah we heard from him recently. Hopefully his health is good now.

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Allow multiple groups per post (use them like tags). This would have some interesting implications regarding moderation and the handling of replies to the said post.

Having multiple identical posts in different groups with distributed replies doesn’t feel ideal to me.

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Having multiple identical posts in different groups with distributed replies doesn’t feel ideal to me.

I think this is actually a feature. You’re essentially trying to centralize communities, but communities are decentralised just like instances.

Why do we have multiple Technology communities? Because some people might like the mods or the rules in the other community better or maybe you can’t even access one of the communities because your instance is defederated from the instance with that community.

Just as one admin doesn’t have monopoly on the Fediverse, no mod has monopoly on a community.

Multiple communities is a feature, not a bug.

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I proposed an extension of the feature set. The current behaviour is still possible. You can use the added feature but you don’t have to.

The issue for me: The current landscape in lemmy has a lot of sparsely filled groups - I do not browse by group (filter by subscribed or all and sorted by new or hot).
In this view multiple identical posts with distributed replies are shown. This adds redundancy in the comments and reduces clarity.

Edit: The idea rises the question, how the ownership (or relation) of a post to the group and its replies should be handled. Using an x-post-like approach is just one idea.

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Cross instance post/comment deletion.

Sometimes I just don’t want my comments to live forever and deleting shouldn’t be impossible.

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I don’t know, man, your comments are works of art.

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Nah, not mine, piss takes and sarcasm mostly.

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Exactly. [chef’s kiss]

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detection

You meant deletion? This is already implemented about as well as it can be.

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Sometimes I just don’t want my comments to live forever and deleting shouldn’t be impossible.

Due to the nature of the Fediverse, this will be very difficult if not impossible to implement/enforce.

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The fediverse is not set up for that. Everything is public and could be saved by an instance admin

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I would like to be able to more effectively filter posts of languages i can’t understand. Using memmy i have been trying to filter posts by key word and entering common words in every language, but it’s not changed how much i scroll past, and it’s hard to determine if it’s effective at all.

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Usually these posts are in language specific communities and the best option then is to just block the community (or the whole instance, if the whole instance is language specific).

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I just blocked a few foreign communities, maybe three of the biggest ones. solved it for me

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Also the opposite. Allow the user to specify that they want to see ALL languages, regardless of which ones their instance supports. It seems weird that navigating to an instance without being logged in shows all posts but when you’re logged in they get automatically filtered to the instance-supported languages.

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Are your language preferences set on your account? (open your account settings on the website rather than an app)

Or are these all posts with their language set to undefined?

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I had not set these options yet. But they are set now. I am keeping undefined, not sure all that i would lose without it

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