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This. On r*ddit I used to upvote posts, and save really important ones to organise them. Maybe even some way to organize bookmarked posts.

Don't know if that's a client side thing or not.

Yeah, one post and links to the different comment sections below it

If they use the crosspost feature this should already happen. Of course no apps support that yet to my knowledge.

This is my #1 request as well. Not easy to implement I’m sure but would be a huge QoL upgrade.

This PR in lemmy will implement the issue PR #3869. Looking at the thread, the devs have completed the work and waiting for successful testing.

This. So much this. I’m about to figure out how to make open server just do I can block all the hentai and furry porn servers.

If you have any specific requests I can add to Sync I'd love to get your feedback.

As long as this is opt-in, I'm okay with this. I personally don't want to have followers.

You can follow people and do regular posts on kbin in case you didn't know yet.

I wouldn’t stop using Lemmy because of “user profiles”, but this was one of the worst things implemented by Reddit. Basically started the slide into Facebook-tier

I've had a thought, what if clients allowed users to mix and match communities so that they show as one? You could bundle all the gaming communities into one for instance. You'd still see where each publication originates from but they would appear in the same feed

Beautiful. But it would be tough to make moderation work. Administration too, for that matter.

Can we do this after they shut down their server please

That’sa bigger problem than lemmy. But also, yes.

This is a common wish in F/OSS circles ... and then the owners/maintainers of F/OSS projects make the process of contributing anything convoluted, difficult, and emotionally draining (via a whole lot of bikeshedding)^1^.

When F/OSS projects make contribution culture a thing, they'll get contributors. Until then ... ugh. No. They won't.

^1^ Obligatory example: on a particular F/OSS game server a specific command by default gave this massive wave of output that was, for an average user, 95% useless. It listed things the user couldn't participate in. AND it listed the small number of things the user could participate in first, ensuring it scrolled right off the screen before it could get spotted. A user with actual UX design experience posted a long and detailed critique, explaining the problems, explaining why the available suggested solutions were flawed, and made a concrete suggestion for keeping existing behaviour with a simple /all switch on the command while making the default useful for 95% of users. From a quick glance at the code base myself, I figured it would take the maintainers two hours tops to fully implement and test the recommended change. It was a trivial change to metadata in the command processor, not even an actual code change.

And she got "well akshuallied" to death. A bunch of programmers with zero knowledge of UX, no perceivable talent for tasteful design, and egos that got bruised by the suggestion that their output wasn't perfect dumped on this poor woman (the fact she was a woman being, I suspect, a major factor) to the point she's sworn never to get involved in suggesting anything for a F/OSS project ever again. Because F/OSS communities are just that toxic.

So solve that problem and you'll get UI and UX designers galore. And maybe get people who'll document too, provided you don't tell them (literally!) that their contributions matter less than code. (Because nothing motivates contribution better than telling people doing the contributions that they don't matter!)