On Reddit, many subreddits have configurable requirements like minimum account age and karma before users are allowed to post or comment.

If a user doesn’t meet the criteria, they receive an automatic message like:

Your post/comment has been removed as your account does not meet the karma and/or age requirements of this sub.

Your account must be older than _____ days and have more than ________ combined karma to post here.

I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically.

Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.

Do you think Lemmy should consider adding similar options for community moderators — such as requiring a minimum amount of local or federated karma, and/or minimum account age — before a user can post or comment in a community?

Would this help reduce spam or low-effort posts, or would it go against the spirit of open discussion that Lemmy encourages?

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I’m not sure how achievable or realistic this would be from a technical standpoint, but I wanted to suggest a possible improvement to the user experience in Summit.

Currently, on instances where downvoting is disabled, users can still see the downvote button and attempt to use it.

After repeatedly trying to downvote, they get a multiple Downvotes icon and must manually clear it in their settings.

This can be confusing and unintuitive, especially for newer users.

Would it be possible for Summit to detect when an instance has downvoting disabled and automatically hide or disable the downvote button for users on that instance?

This could provide a cleaner interface and help avoid unnecessary confusion or frustration.

Thanks for all the continued work on Lemmy — really appreciate the effort you put into improving the platform!

Just throwing out a thought for discussion:

Should Lemmy potentially add a profile status indicator that users can manually set—kind of like what platforms like Discord use?

For example, something where users can choose to display:

🟢 Online

🔴 Busy / Do Not Disturb

⚫ Invisible

⚪ Offline

--

Or even something custom, like:

“Away”

“Lurking”

"Work"

"[Enter Custom Text Here]"

etc.

It wouldn’t have to be real-time tracking, just a manual toggle in profile settings or next to your username.

Could be useful for signaling whether you're active, taking a break, or just want to lurk quietly without being pinged or messaged.

Would this be helpful, or does it go against Lemmy’s minimalist, federated design?

Curious what others think.

Given the general Lemmy guideline that users should avoid posting more than 5–10 times per hour in a single community (to prevent flooding the overall network), would it make sense for Lemmy to implement some kind of Hourly Post Counter?

For example, a small indicator that shows how many posts a user has made to a given community in the past hour—like “3/10 posts this hour”—maybe visible when posting or on your profile.

Perhaps have it so that if users go over the limit, they get an error message.

It could help users stay within the community norms, especially since Lemmy doesn’t have as many active users as Reddit, and frequent posting can have a larger impact here.

Do you think this is a helpful idea?

Or would it just take up space?

Would love to hear your thoughts.

I'm not sure how feasible this would be technically, but I wanted to suggest a feature that might help users better follow Lemmy’s posting guidelines.

As many of us know, Lemmy generally encourages users not to make more than 5–10 posts per hour in the same community to avoid flooding the broader Lemmy network. However, since Lemmy doesn’t currently show any kind of post frequency counter, it's easy to lose track—especially for active users or those posting across multiple communities.

Would it be possible for Summit to implement an Hourly Post Counter?

Ideally, this would:

Track how many posts a user has made per community in the past hour

Provide a simple visual indicator (e.g., “3/10 posts this hour”) either in the post submission area or user profile

Reset automatically after the hour passes

Perhaps have it so that if users go over the limit, they get an error message.

Given Lemmy's relatively smaller user base compared to platforms like Reddit/Instagram/Xitter/etc., this kind of feature could help users self-moderate and reduce the risk of unintentional spammy behavior.

Platform: Summit for Lemmy Android Category: UI/UX Improvement

Request:

Currently, when a user posts a comment that consists only of an image or GIF, Summit displays that image at full size directly in the comment thread. This causes the comment section to be visually overwhelming, especially when users post large or high-resolution images.

It’s unclear whether this behavior is determined by Summit or the Lemmy backend, but Reddit handles this much more cleanly: image/GIF-only comments are shown as smaller images. If the user wants to view the image in full size, they can simply tap or click to expand it.

Suggested Solution:

Render image/GIF-only comments as scaled-down images in the comment thread.

Allow users to tap or click on the image to open it in full-screen or a lightbox view.

Optionally provide a setting to toggle between full-size inline images and scaled-down, giving users control over their experience.

Why This Matters:

Improves readability of threads, especially in active discussions with image memes, GIF's, or screenshots.

Prevents the UI from being cluttered or hijacked by a single large image.

Aligns behavior more closely with familiar platforms like Reddit, improving usability and reducing friction for new users.

Thanks for all the work you do on Summit—it’s a great client and keeps getting better!

Reddit:

Summit:

Ever since the latest App Update, I noticed that certain Post Comments have different colours, and not the just the usual left-side coloured bars next to the comments, but are completely highlighted.

I was curious, what is the difference / reason for that?

On Reddit, there is a bot called u/profanitycounter that users could summon to count the number and types of swear words someone had used in their recent comment history.

While it was mostly used for humor or lighthearted callouts, it also sparked discussion around online civility, user behavior, and moderation trends.

With Lemmy growing as a federated alternative to Reddit, I'm curious:

Should Lemmy (or a third-party dev) implement a similar profanity counter bot?

Would such a tool add meaningful engagement, moderation assistance, or humor to the platform?

Or would it be seen as invasive, performative, or redundant given Lemmy's decentralized nature and local moderation policies?

Some possible considerations:

Could such a bot be opt-in or confined to specific communities?

Would this be better as a per-instance moderation tool or a user-invoked script (like tagging a bot)?

How would it handle federation? Would it scan only local comments, or across instances?

Could it be useful as a moderation analytics tool, or does it risk shaming users?

Would love to hear from both devs and moderators—whether this kind of bot aligns with Lemmy’s goals, or if it's best left in Reddit’s history books.

I would love to attempt something like this, but I lack both the time and energy.

https://www.reddit.com/u/profanitycounter/s/6cwlJ9sjIG

https://www.reddit.com/r/profanitycounter/s/V6bvzqUrrH

This might be a bit of a niche thought, but I’ve been wondering: is it just me, or has anyone else ever thought about how cool (and possibly important) it would be to have a federated alternative to platforms like Giphy and Tenor?

These platforms are everywhere—embedded into our keyboards, messaging apps, social media tools—but they’re centralized, proprietary, and often raise questions around privacy, data mining, and corporate consolidation of internet culture.

In the age of the Fediverse, where we’re seeing federated replacements for Twitter (Mastodon), Reddit (Lemmy), YouTube (PeerTube), Instagram (Pixelfed), etc., it seems like the next logical step would be a federated GIF repository and search engine.

Imagine a platform where communities could host and share GIFs in a decentralized way. Artists could upload and tag their own content, instances could have their own moderation rules, and apps could tap into the federation to serve GIFs without relying on corporate APIs.

It could even potentially extend beyond GIFs into stickers, short looping videos, meme formats, Bitmoji - style Emoji's, etc.

That said—I’d absolutely love to attempt something like this, but I’ll be honest: I just don’t currently have the knowledge, time, or energy to build such a project myself.

Still, I can’t shake the feeling that this could be a valuable addition to the wider Fediverse ecosystem.

So I wanted to put this out there and ask:

Has anyone ever considered/already started working on something like this?

Are there any existing tools or protocols that could make this easier to develop?

What kind of features would you want to see in a federated GIF platform?

Curious to hear your thoughts.

I've been pondering this for a while, and wanted to bring it to the wider Lemmy community:

Should Lemmy consider potentially adding a feature similar to Discord’s @everyone (or maybe @all)—but strictly limited to moderators of a community?

The idea is this: If a mod needs to get the attention of all subscribers to a Lemmy community—say, for instance migrations, rule changes, major events, or time-sensitive issues—there's currently no effective way to notify everyone at once. Even if they pin a post or make a sticky, there's no guarantee everyone will see it, especially in larger or more passive communities.

A feature like @everyone could potentially solve this by triggering a notification or at least a visible alert for every subscriber, similar to how Discord handles announcements.

Potential Benefits:

Improved communication during emergencies or migrations (such as an instance shutdown).

A good way to highlight major community-wide polls, rule changes, or reorganizations.

Could help smaller communities stay engaged and informed.

Ensures announcements don’t get buried in active communities.

Potential Concerns:

Abuse or spam from overuse by mods (though this could be mitigated).

Notification fatigue if used too often, especially in large communities.

Could feel too centralized or “top-down” in a decentralized ecosystem like Lemmy.

Possible Solutions or Safeguards:

Limit the feature to 1 use every X days per community.

Require a confirmation popup or warning before sending it.

Allow users to opt out of @everyone notifications in their settings.

Only make it active in posts or announcements, not comment threads.

I’m curious—has this feature ever been proposed officially before? And more importantly, what are your thoughts?

Would a feature like this enhance moderator tools and improve communication, or would it be too easily abused and go against Lemmy’s decentralized principles?

Looking forward to hearing everyone’s take.

Given that Lemmy currently has no native support for migrating communities if an instance shuts down or becomes unstable, I’ve been wondering:

Has anyone thought about creating a bot that helps with this process?

The basic idea: when a migration is needed, one or more mods could create a new community on the target instance (setting up rules, banner, header, etc.), and then the bot would clone the old community’s content — posts, comments, etc. — and repost them to the new community (all with the community's support, ideally preserving authorship, or noting who posted what).

To be respectful of users, there could even be an option to exclude posts/comments from users who don’t want to be included in the migration.

This kind of tool could dramatically reduce the time and effort needed to manually recreate communities and save valuable content from being lost.

I’d love to attempt this myself, but unfortunately I lack the time, technical know-how, and energy.

Has anything like this already been attempted, or is anyone working on a tool like this?

Curious to hear your thoughts — feasibility, technical hurdles, privacy concerns, etc.