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?
    • PhilipTheBucketOPAEnglish
      28·
      2 months ago

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

          • PhilipTheBucketOPAEnglish
            8·
            2 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.zoneEnglish
        6·
        2 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

        • PhilipTheBucketOPAEnglish
          9·
          2 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.

    • EleventhHour@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      2 months ago

      I have an app where I can just type “+gpt <gpt prompt>” into any text field, so I have that already.

      Seems slightly unfair to put that workload on the server.

      The app is “MacGPT” and runs in the menu bar. I presume that such a useful utility almost certainly would exist for Linux, maybe on windows.