I’m curious as to you guys opinions. It could be Mastodon itself or a Mastodon client. What features would you like to see that are not currently available?
Optional and customisable algorithm, and quote posts.
Those two things would make Mastodon a lot more popular and better.
Better search
full text search is available as of the last update. accounts have to opt-in for their posts to be searchable.
Better than the full-text search that was included in the most recent update ?
Complete separation of text from hashtags, so that hashtags are not counted in the word limit. Allow posts with longer word limit with an automatic “read more” tag or automatic splitting of longer text into a thread. Also quote posts.
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Proper federation of favorites and boosts. You can’t see favorites from people outside of your instance for some reason, and boosts are sorta federated from people outside of your instance, but still not fully. Lemmy manages to federate upvotes fine, so it seems like it’d be possible.
The app I use (Moshidon) loads the actual favorite count when you open the favorites list, but it’s annoying I have to go through that step.
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Quoting Posts
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Higher poll option count. 4 is not enough. I’d say it should be at least 6, preferably something like 15 or 25.
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Higher character count per post. No reason for it to be capped at 500. I’d say the default should be 1500.
Also I think it’s hard for admins to change the default character count, so that should be made easier.
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I’d really like an algorithm (optional, of course). Getting content you want to see is really difficult. It’s hard to find people to follow, and when you do you get all of their posts in your feed, not just the ones you want to see.
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The most important thing is a separate icon for sending personal messages (using the drop-down menu to select “Only for those mentioned” is not convenient and you can simply forget to do this).
I would like a more user friendly design. For example, most applications for Lemmy have a very user-friendly design.
And probably the most anticipated thing by users is the introduction of e2ee. I have read many requests from users on this topic.
Some kind of federation for hashtag follows is what I’d like to see the most. Currently I am using a larger instance mainly to get a good chunk of the traffic for the hashtags that I am interested in. The ability to filter content for user follows would help in this area too. I want to be able to follow a user but only see their posts with specific hashtags.
Oh, and markdown support! Really miss having a proper way to do lists, literals and code blocks.
markdown support
If you are on (or migrate to) a server using the Glitch-Social fork of Mastodon, you’ll get markdown support. It’s a game-changer, in my opinion. (glitch-soc has lots of other nice features too, btw).
