I’m not currently developing a Lemmy app, and I have no plans to, so this is not a market research post for myself. If anything, I’d like it to be a resource for existing developers to see which features the community most wants!
So, putting aside regular features (e.g. things that the Hard-R app already does), I’m specifically wondering about which less common features you all want?
Here’s of one of mine:
I’d like to be able to limit my usage of an instance to a specific account. For example: I never want to post to LemmyNSFW from my main account. That’s what my alt is for. So I want to be automatically switches to my preferred account per-instance when I interact with it (or at least give me the choice to switch on-the-fly when composing a post or comment).
I want the ability to block keywords in titles. IDGAF about twitter, Reddit, Elon, desantis, trump, Kanye.
And to that I’d like to add instance blocking on a user level
Connect for lemmy have this feature
I’m on iOS, so I don’t have access to Connect. I do however have access to Memmy and Voyager, and those apps get updated daily, especially with TestFlight.
Connect have this
Specifically as an iOS/Apollo refugee I want better media handling. Apollo Gif and Video player was excellent. I’d like to be able to scrub more easily. Better API integration with content hosts. Also better OS integration. I know people using Apollo got butt hurt because iOS put the text recognition image over the bottom corner of pics, but I got very used to being able to quickly copy text out of images and things like that. Also Memmy is never recommended in the OS where Reddit official app is constantly recommended despite my hardly ever using it. That’s the app asking the OS to be recognized based on usage factors, and it’s something the dev has to build in.
Two features I’m really missing are related to revisiting or refreshing comment threads.
First, the ability to remember your spot on the scroll bar if you exit a thread and return later.
Second, highlighting new comments made since your last visit of the thread.
Highlighting new comments is something I really miss from Apollo. That app did it perfectly.
I would like a more broad fediverse app that can access mastodon and other sites more easily
Mark posts as read on scroll. It was the best feature of Sync and as far as I’m aware only Connect for Android supports it. Shortly after it got that feature I switched to iOS and haven’t found any others that have it.
There are so many posts, like photos, that I get the gist of just by scrolling past that I’m not interested in interacting with and yet there is no quick way to clear them from my feed. Lemmy still doesn’t have a really high turnover rate for content so when I come back later I have to scroll past tons of posts I’ve already seen to get to anything new.
If anyone knows of an iOS or web app with this feature let me know please. I’m using Memmy right now and it’s pretty good other than missing this.
Voyager (vger.app) just introduced that in the latest update, the feature can be enabled in settings.
Connect has the feature, but it only works after reloading the app. Scrolling back up still shows them as unread. I’d really like it to be marked as read once it scrolls off screen.
I would like the Lemmy equivalent of multi reddits
I follow a certain topic and there are several good Lemmys and Kbins for the topic. Instead of having to visit each one to see the latest, I would like to have all of them integrated into one feed - a multi Lemmy feed
An Apollo clone…
Community search engine, there are lots of old informative posts but we cannot find then in an app
A tablet mode. Infinity had a nice one, I miss it.
Tags I can apply to other users.
Swipe to exit image view.
One that uses Firefox with ublock origin for the internal browser. Coming from Relay for Reddit, I find opening external links in the stock chrome browser to be extremely painful.
Hide previous posts, filter out key words, backup of settings.
Comment navigator button that can be moved to middle like relay
I want to login to 1 Lemmy server and never have to worry about logging into another instance. Currently using Lift Off, but it’s pretty annoying that I can’t just up-vote or comment on posts that are on different instances because I’m not logged in.
I thought that was the whole point of being federated, that I could interact with people on different instances.
You should be able to do that already. I use Liftoff and am able to interact with other instances just fine. Perhaps the instances you’re trying to interact with have been defederated by your home server? I admit I don’t exactly know how defederation works yet, but it’s the only explanation I can think of as to why you’re unable to interact with another instance.
I’m signed in to my lemmy.world account. When I try to upvote something from [email protected] Liftoff says I have to sign in. I can view the post, I just can’t upvote.
Sometimes I click something and I get a pop up that says “View from lemmy.world” or something like that. When I click on that, then I can upvote.
Anyway, I just switched to Connect for Lemmy and it doesn’t have that issue. I’m signed into lemmy.world and don’t have to care what instance a post is on.
I’d love the “swipe between posts” functionality that Joey and the official Reddit app had.
