Like, i dont want to read anything about reddit, or elon musk, so i put those keywords in a filter that would hide posts/comments related to those. used to work like a charm on Ruqqus.

Lemmy Rust code: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/cb28af508d030683561bdc9dde2299cf818f2c6b/crates/api_common/src/community.rs#L76

Allow directory of communities specific to a particular Lemmy instance, ones already know to the local server.

In the Lemmy web app I'd like the notification count to stand out more with respect to the bell icon, for example by displaying the count in a contrasting color such as red.

At present the count is more subtle and I often end up missing the latest notifications (which, now that I think about it, some may consider a feature 😀).

Sometimes users submit some content (post or comment), and due to a bug or performance issue the content doesn't appear, even if the instance already saved it. So the user resubmits it over and over... like this:

(This is not my own comment, but I had this issue already.)

While this isn't usually done for the sake of spam, it's still a source of noise for the community, and annoying for the user oneself.

So my suggestion is that, when a user tries to submit a piece of content to Lemmy, Lemmy should compare it with the last piece of content already submitted. And if they're identical, prevent it with some error "warning: duplicate" or similar.

There are users who are going to upload the same reaction images and content to comments all over the place. And those users will be on their same home server. Increases performance for all the people reading the comments. Reduces storage for the server operator at the expense of some extra calculations.

However far off multi-communities are, it would be nice if it were easier to manage the communities I'm subscribed to.

Easiest, low-hanging fruit would be to allow me to create my own lists of communities for when I want to visit communities independently and would like to do so in a more organised fashion. Also, providing a basic text search window for the names of my subscribed communities could also help.

When sorting the feed by "Active", "Hot" or "Top Day" etc, your "Subscribed" feed will tend to show posts only for the most active communities, while posts from smaller communities will never have as much activity or as many upvotes.

It might be nice to counter this tendency by comparing a post's upvotes/score by the average of the community it comes from, so that being "Top" is really "Top for its community".

You probably wouldn't want this to be the default. Perhaps an additional feed sorting option.

I'd like to see a button that hides a post from my timeline and fills up the slot with the next interesting thing. Well, yes, just like Reddits hide post feature.

Right now, on 0.18.0 at least, it's all one big generic search interface that it makes annoying to find exactly what you're looking for, like when you're just looking for a community.