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What do you want to have in a Lemmy instance? (ponder.cat)

submitted 3 months ago by PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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I started up my own instance and now I have realized that there's no reason anyone would join mine instead of any other instance.

That's no good. What neat stuff would the Fediverse like to see in a Lemmy instance?

Follow RSS feeds in your Lemmy feed? I have that already, in a way, but it would be nice to be able to do it for any feed automatically without it being clunky.
Follow Mastodon users? Or tags?
Embedded video? That seems costly.
Hackability? The ability to run your own customized front end? Or good scripting features in the browser console?
A better looking UI? This one is functional but it's not pretty.
Better moderation? I have heard the Lemmy tools aren't that good.
Something else?

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[-] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 28 points 3 months ago

Can the pages play music, and animated avatars? I feel like you're onto something.

[-] shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol 16 points 3 months ago

Bring back <blink> and <marquee> elements.

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 months ago

Can we also get a MIDI file to play at full volume whenever I open Lemmy?

[-] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 8 points 3 months ago

And if you could make the back button malfunction and then reload the page, and also open a dialog when I try to navigate away, that would be perfect.

[-] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 months ago

Our profiles playing music and having their own effects that we can pick

With each day we're getting closer and closer to classic Myspace

[-] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 9 points 3 months ago

Cory Doctorow pointed out recently that having pages be ugly and half-broken is an immune system against creeping corporate influence. Marketing people are incapable of making ugly pages without collapsing into fits, so if every page on your system is ugly and homemade, they won't be able to fit in there, and they'll have a harder time turning it all into shit.