Currently lemmy is like the speedboat next to the heavy steam boat of Mastodon etc. While lemmy is still dynamic and flexible and can introduce new features easily without scaring off its established user base, mastodon can not do such experiments so easily. Now, if lemmy gains more momentum in the fediverse and establishes features, which other services don't have, it could really push innovation in the Fediverse further. What do you think?

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[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 51 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lemmy does not have basic features, to the point that one of the big instances is considering moving off lemmy.

I think we have a lot more following to do before we can lead with new features.

[–] dandroid@dandroid.app 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Which instance, and which features do they feel are missing?

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You've had answers from others but basically moderation tools are non-existent. When you report something, there's no way to pick to send to admins or community moderators, so if there's an issue with a community the moderators can just resolve reports before the admins see them.

There is no site-wide moderator role, so if you want someone able to take action when CSAM (etc) is posted on a remote community you have to make them admin and also give them access to approve accounts or change the name of the website, etc.

The only actions available are to temporarily or permanently ban a user. You can't restrict new users from posting 100 posts in the first 10 mins or anything like that.

There is not even a way to report a user. If someone makes an account on one instance and starts spamming on a different one, there is no way to report it to the user's instance admins. The user's instance admins are the only ones that can ban a spammer in a way that federates to other instances, so if you can't report it to them then each of the 1000+ instances needs to each ban them. (in reality, admins will normally message each other or post in a spam matrix channel, but the simple option to report a user should exist)

[–] Xepher@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago

Beehaw. And effective moderation tools.

[–] Wander@yiffit.net 16 points 1 year ago

Not that instance, but Lemmy is missing a lot of moderation and federation tools. Right now you only have sledgehammers to deal with tiny nails, in regards to tooling.

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can do both. e.g lemmy had full text search for a long while before masto

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That is such a basic feature that it should not even have to be mentioned.

[–] Spzi@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

I still miss text searching a community. Often I vaguely remember what I saw, how it was called and in which community, but this information is worthless with the current state of the search function.

[–] jadedctrl@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As did Pleroma and several other fedi servers — that’s not really innovation, it’s something simple that Mastodon devs deliberately avoided implementing.