If there was a readAt date for the post, we’d be able to highlight comments created since that date. I don’t think tracking a readAt date is much less private than tracking a read boolean, which you’re already doing. It could always be made opt-out, if people are concerned about it. Having the date that someone read a post isn’t as exploitable as the link click tracking you mention, I don’t think.
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Thanks for the info :) Lemmy 1.0 tracks a
readAttimestamp; maybe it’s worth looking at how they’re doing it.
Currently, we are missing API support for this. Lemmy 1.0 (the upcoming version of Lemmy) includes this feature, so we’ll add support for it when Lemmy 1.0 is released :)
We could do, but ideally it would be implemented on the backend - some people use PieFed on both mobile and desktop, and storing the last read count locally wouldn’t carry over properly between clients. Lemmy 1.0 has backend support for this feature.
We accept bug reports and feature requests both here and on GitHub :)
If you already have a GitHub account, creating issues there is easier for us, but it really doesn’t matter too much. We also have a Matrix chat.
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Mlem for Lemmy@lemmy.ml•On latest version; been unable to get load any new items past initial posts, or “infinite scroll” on “All” for a while now. Cleared cache. Reinstalled. Reauthenticated. Works on “Subscribed”English
1·1 month agoThis looks like a backend issue again - the sh.itjust.works website is failing to load past the first page, too.
Mlem dev here. We aren’t associated with the Lemmy developers :) We set up [email protected] shortly after the Reddit API Exodus, and chose to host our community on .ml because it advertised itself as a FOSS-centered instance. We’ve considered moving to a self-hosted instance but haven’t got around to it yet.
You can block instances within Mlem from the menu in the top-right of the instance page.

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Mlem for Lemmy@lemmy.ml•[ TestFlight Update ] Mlem TestFlight Patch Notes 2025-12-13English
6·2 months agoWe require searching by comment to support
listing_type=Localin order to support instance filtering (this PieFed issue). I see you’ve just added support for that, so we’ll re-enable the feature for the upcoming PieFed version release. Thanks :)Mlem implements filtering by instance by sending a request with
listing_type=Localto whichever instance you filter by. This shows comments made in communities on that instance. The Lemmy API does not have a way to filter by a specific non-local instance.
This is a feature in Lemmy 1.0 (the upcoming version of Lemmy). I’m not aware of any apps that implement it as a client-side-only feature.
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Hi, thanks for letting us know. Unfortunately I can’t reproduce this issue at the moment; reporting works for me :(
Next time you see this issue, could you please tap on the error popup and copy-paste the error message here? You can also go to Settings -> Developer -> Error Log to see all errors since the app was opened.