This is an opportunity for any users, server admins, or interested third parties to ask anything they'd like to @nutomic@lemmy.ml and I about Lemmy. This includes its development and future, as well as wider issues relevant to the social media landscape today.

  • Salamander@mander.xyz
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    1 year ago

    Really cool! I'm excited to learn more about you and the project!

    What's the format? Should we submit questions beforehand, or will you process questions that arrive at the start time? I've never participated in an AMA 😅

    • tonyn@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Lemmy gives me the same feeling that Reddit did when I first discovered it in 2011. Back before they cared about being profitable and sustainable, when it was a growing community. I don't know if Lemmy is sustainable or not, but I like the way it feels to be a part of this.

      Sync really makes it feel like a seamless transition though. Jerboa is good, but Sync is what I'm used to.

    • Dessalines@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Pry unavoidable, but I bet nearly all the questions will be good-faith ones. For the most part the lemmyverse is still 99% less toxic than reddit.

      • Ghost@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        I'm new to here and really enjoying it so far. I came here because I'm tired of what reddit has became it's a very dangerous place over there and they should be investigated.

        I was curious. I've been a Linux admin for a while and I loved some of the communities on reddit. I'm really good with admin work and watching over communities and servers and wanted to know when I'd be able to create my own community?

        I'd love to see a piercing community here where people can talk piercings and ask for advice.

        Thank you for making this place awesome so far! I'm also working on my own application

        I believe in free speech and open sourced software and I believe in internet security and privacy and always try to inform people on how to stay safe online.

        Currently working on my own app similar to this called Freddit meaning ( F*** reddit) 😆

        • Fenzik@lemmy.ml
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          1 year ago

          What do you mean “when”? You can create a community on an existing instance right now, or you can run your own instance if you want! Just check out the docs.

    • socsa@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      I think there are some legitimate concerns here though. Not necessarily of the ideology the primary devs, but the way it manifests with a soft ban on certain topics (Ukraine), and how they seem fine letting lemmygrad trolls shut down basically every other world news thread. And I'm not talking about people having different opinions here - I'm talking about users who openly state that they seek to disrupt discussion in order to deny the information space to non-ML ideas entirely. I have reported a number of these comments which are blatantly and openly stating that they only intend to troll and disrupt and nothing ever happens. Yet if you take a slightly wrong tone in responding to the sel-avowed trolls they are quite quick with the ban hammer.

      • AlmightySnoo III 🐢@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        Well my personal take is that it's his instance and if he wants to restrict non-commie stuff here well that's bad but ultimately it's his instance and it's why I only have an alt on this instance for emergencies, I can't align with commie beliefs. The software is open-source and independent of his beliefs and that's what matters and I also respect him for the work he did.

  • Efwis@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    I have a suggestion about lemmy. Could there be a way where Lemmy can check for community names across instances to help reduce multiple communities of the same name? For example, say someone wants to create a Linux community on their instance and during the creation Lemmy searches an index of community names and finds one already named that name, it would then recommend the existing community which already exists be used or a new community name be made.

    My theory is to help reduce the multiple communities of the same name posting the same article numerous times on the all feed.

  • misterharbies@lemmy.nz
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    1 year ago

    Not sure if you saw the news, but the BBC are experimenting with their own Mastadon instance. They can probably afford to host video.

    I understand that many instances are run by volunteers and hobbyists. But that doesn't mean that a business such as BBC couldn't come and host their own instance.

    And I don't think I implied that you wanted to ban video. I just want to see video integrated natively into Lemmy so that instances can turn it on or off. A Youtube link is no good. I don't like being rickrolled.

    • CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      I think a major obstacle is storage space. Many small to medium sized volunteer funded instances will have trouble affording it.

  • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Would you want this promoted on other platforms (basically mastodon), not that that would necessarily garner much more participation?