speedythefirst@lemmy.zip to Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoI'm still new to the Fediverse. What are your favorite unique things that your instance does? What do you wish was more widely adopted across instances/federated platforms?message-squaremessage-square41fedilinkarrow-up157arrow-down11
arrow-up156arrow-down1message-squareI'm still new to the Fediverse. What are your favorite unique things that your instance does? What do you wish was more widely adopted across instances/federated platforms?speedythefirst@lemmy.zip to Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square41fedilink
minus-squareRekall Incorporated@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 day agoSome thing that I think should be more widely adopted (de facto mostly a list of features that Lemmy lacks relative to Piefed): Instance URL redirection; not only a Piefed thing, also done by Voyager Merged comments for the same post URL Post flair and to a lesser extent tags, Post flair is really helpful for if you manage a community
minus-squarespeedythefirst@lemmy.zipOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 day agoI was really surprised when I saw that flairs weren’t widely adopted yet. They’re super useful for community filtering.
minus-squareAuster@thebrainbin.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 day agoClosest in other engines afaik are tags, but they are only an <include> type of filter, not also an <exclude> one.
minus-squareNutomic@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-21 day agoWhat do you mean by instance url redirection? We discussed about merged comments for same post url, but there was no clear support for it. Many people dont care or warn that it could have unwanted side effects.
minus-squareRimu@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 day agoThat’s where the text of my comment has a link to https://lemmy.zip/post/61737842 and PieFed automatically turns it into https://piefed.social/c/fediverse/p/1937345/i-m-still-new-to-the-fediverse-what-are-your-favorite-unique-things-that-your-instance because I’m using piefed.social. Viewers of my comment on piefed.zip get whatever the piefed.zip url is.
Some thing that I think should be more widely adopted (de facto mostly a list of features that Lemmy lacks relative to Piefed):
I was really surprised when I saw that flairs weren’t widely adopted yet. They’re super useful for community filtering.
Closest in other engines afaik are tags, but they are only an <include> type of filter, not also an <exclude> one.
What do you mean by instance url redirection?
We discussed about merged comments for same post url, but there was no clear support for it. Many people dont care or warn that it could have unwanted side effects.
That’s where the text of my comment has a link to https://lemmy.zip/post/61737842 and PieFed automatically turns it into https://piefed.social/c/fediverse/p/1937345/i-m-still-new-to-the-fediverse-what-are-your-favorite-unique-things-that-your-instance because I’m using piefed.social. Viewers of my comment on piefed.zip get whatever the piefed.zip url is.