The only additive feature that would make it my forever client is customizable multi-communities.

Let me choose to add games@lemmy.world, gaming@lemmy.ml, pcgaming@lemmy.world, etc into a single multicom (that I can name) and display posts from all of them when I click on it.

It would be quite literally perfect for all of my browsing needs if it implemented this feature.

This is largely a reddit-discourse problem that evolved over time as the site devolved into witty one-liners and adversarial comments for engagement.

I’m hoping people push back hard against this across various fediverse instances because it just makes the internet a worse place and discourages contributions from would-be posters/commenters.

People should feel excited to post without feeling the need to look over their post/comment 100 times to pre-emptively guess what all attack angles someone is going to respond to in a post as harmless about liking the way roses smell.

This is where apps need to pick up the “slack” imo. Let me make something like a multi-community where to me, the user, I’m just clicking on games but in the background it’s amalgamating c/gaming@lemmy.ml, , c/games@lemmy.world c/pcgaming@lemmy.wold, etc.

Let me configure which communities populate this collection of communities and in a perfect world present to me, the app user, a combined-looking post for links that are the same across instances.

Example, if c/games and c/pcgaming have a link post pointing to the same link, don’t duplicate the threads in my collection of communities aggregate, just show comments from each thread under a single post on my end.

Many people genuinely give up at the “pick an instance” stage.

Part of it is a slight failing for not blasting “if you join any of these instances you can respond to posts on any of these imstances’ communities” but also the level of tech literacy has fallen off of a cliff post-smartphone world.

Bolstering technology literacy (I’m talking simple things like: what is a file browser, where do things you download go by default, what are some common file types for music/videos/applications) need to be added to public education because there’s clearly a decline happening here that will have downstream ramifications.