A short visual guide explaining new users how to remove most of the 'noise' in the feed. Aka, how-to use the Home feed to only see specific contents the user is interested in, and how-to use the blocking/filtering tools to remove whatever and whomever one is not interested in reading.

It would help make their first experience even better. And maybe encourage them to stay.

Would be nice to be able to create subscription sets and switch between them. Sometimes I want to look at news, other times music or whatever, and sometimes everything together.

u/stabbot

Stabilise (video) bot

[May already be here in the fedi, I've just never seen it linked]

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And maybe polls. Someone was asking about online polls yesterday.

I would like some manual control over how often I see a community in my "hot" feed (or any other feed). Some way to manually "down-weight" some very active communities. (And "up-weight" niche communities if they are very relevant to me.)

Basically when I join a very active community (like !dach@feddit.org) it will replace half of what I currently see in my feed, and I fear to miss the more niche communities that have one or two posts per week and few voters. Currently my only option seems to be to unsubscribe again and use a bookmark to check it. (Or to create a private feed with all the high-traffic communities, as someone else commented here - thanks!)

I would like it if the front end allowed quickly hiding posts.

Right now it's two clicks deep, and then the whole page refreshes.

I have always felt that HIDE is a very essential part of a proper system like this. It's the most neutral way you can interact with something, you don't want to give or detract from votes, you don't even want to look at it. And in today's content fire hose, we need this!