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?
If there’s a person (or bot) that claims to be unbiased but spams every political post with a biased assertion of the OP’s partiality/impartiality with a huge post that is low effort copy+paste/script-generated, the correct response is to ban that person (or bot).
This is nothing new to online communities, but this instance seems to be struggling with this.