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Advanced mod and spam mitigation tools for community moderators. The ability to force users to only post discussion posts, or link posts. Ability to block certain urls from being posted. Ability to stop certain keywords in post title or body. Ability to cooldown between posts, making it so specific users may only post X times over a period.

More interaction in niche communities.

I think the technology is somewhat sound. I believe what we need is loads of good, original content and nice people and a good atmosphere.

Could this relate to discovery? It users could subscribe to topics or feeds that allows them to discover content from communities and users they are not necessarily subscribed to, this could create more engagement in lesser known communities. Say for example you subscribe to a hashtag for a topic, such as #technology, and communities could tag themselves with hashtags that allow their posts to show up to those who subscribe to those hashtags. I know things like this exist already, but I am not sure how seamless/reliable it is on the user side.

I made the !forumverse@piefed.social for this.

Easier discovery of communities beyond tech and politics.

Could this relate to discovery

Yes it could. Finding communities, especially small ones can be a pain. Couple that with a small community being on a small instance and it is virtually unfindable. In addition to that, if the community has never federated with your instance you likely will not see older posts, making it look empty.

!communitypromo@lemmy.ca has a pinned post that can help

Understanding the ins and outs of federation, is explicit federation required to see posts from an instance? Is there not some sort of global discovery engine or search tool that communities can just easily opt into?

IMO the issue isn’t finding those communities, it’s having the pop up in your feeds. Which is why I think the ability to create multiple feeds is a feature we should have. Instead of having just “all” and “subscribed” we should be able to create our own groupings of communities. For example you create one feed called “memes” and then for that feed you subscribe to the meme communities and then you create movies/shows feed subscribe to the movie or TV show communities you care about.

In a similar vein you can create “communities I want to grow” feed where you collect all the low activity communities you’d partake in if they showed up in your feeds.

You can make feeds on Piefed. Go to Explore, and you’ll see Feeds sections.

I would like to see topic or hashtag subscriptions. So you can just subscribe to “technology” as an overarching category, and any community that tags itself with that can show up in your feed. Also, having default feed sorting options that don’t exclude smaller/less active communities could help.

I guess that technically works, but IMO feeds are kinda clunky to use because you can’t just add a community to the feed, you have to go edit the feed and link the community there. And I don’t know if other apps support feeds but on Voyager I can’t see feeds. I’ll give feeds a go but I think it could be improved, especially how to add communities to the feeds you create.

AFAIK the discovery tools are instance opt in/out not community.

This is exactly what is needed.