Upcoming AMA with Lemmy's creators: Monday, 7 Aug, 1500 CEST
Upcoming AMA with Lemmy's creators: Monday, 7 Aug, 1500 CEST
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.
Lemmy feels really nice now with Sync for Lemmy. Feels like I'm just browsing Reddit.
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.
Same here. Sync just feels more polished and it's pretty responsive.
It does feel really nice. Although, I'm gonna keep the app I was using, Thunder, installed. I wanna see how it evolves.
For some reason I couldn’t get into using Mlem, Thunder and Memmy are my favorite so far.
It's so smooth...
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 😅
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I don't want to speak for them, but typically you would submit your questions in the AMA thread when it goes live - the advance warning is to give everyone the chance to prepare to be there, and have their questions ready to go.
And, of course, the AMA will be at !announcements@lemmy.ml - so keep your eyes peeled for that!
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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.
Yeah agreed, with enough administrators it could be kept to a minimum especially if users help with reporting comments, posts and so on. But it will still be very hard to completely keep Lemmy clean of trolls and all the nasty stuff we would rather stay away from that reddit has become.
I believe it's the users job to help keep the app safe as well. Administrators can't catch everything which is why it's really good to have a report button. I know earlier today I reported something very serious (like incriminating) on reddit and I reported it and I somehow got banned for report spamming but then the person got a temporary ban for illegal activities.. it's just so sad what that place has become
I'm a free speech activist and open sourced enthusiast. I also work in cyber security and to be banned for reporting illegal activity and then have them walk away with a temp ban is pretty disheartening tbh
I think from what I've seen being on here for a couple hours
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I love it a lot more we just need to get more active people
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The idea behind this site is amazing and I like what it stands for.
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You guys (as devs) seem to be working very hard on this and you all seem to really care about free speech and having a friendly and active community
I will be supporting this site from now on and can't wait to create my own communities and see how it turns out in the future <3
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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) 😆
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.
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Thanks for helping to build this kickass platform dessalines! You rock
Would you want this promoted on other platforms (basically mastodon), not that that would necessarily garner much more participation?
Sure.
Or on bluesky (also working on federating)
(also working on federating)
Bluesky uses ATProtocol—not ActivityPub—and will not be compatible with Mastodon or Lemmy.
I have a question which will become really important as the platform grows.
It's spelled GDPR.
Some changes would be needed perhaps to not store sensitive personal information in databases and so on, but I'm not sure. Would be interesting to get @nutomic@lemmy.ml thoughts on this.
We need to make sure the network can't be shut down for gdpr reasons.
This is great! I hope we get more AMAs on Lemmy (and with external personalities)
There was an AMA in r/linux and r/opensource about three years ago, I think we should do new ones at some point.
Also, it would help raise outsode awareness about the platform
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Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=H7HYVUjgQFY
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.
Any plans to integrate video into posts and comments natively?
There was iframe support while posting and then it was scrubbed off due to security reasons. I hope it can be brought back again securely or some other method exists.
To devs and instance owners that read this, do not integrate video onto servers, to save yourselves from astronomical storage space issues. Text, images and audio (64-128 kbps OPUS or AAC) are extremely cheap.
The Deaf Community uses sign language which can only be captured and distributed as video. Many Deaf people did not have a good education, therefore their English is not at a level to be fluent. Their first language will be Sign Language. My first Language is Sign Language, but I am also fluent in English. I was privileged to be able to have a good education, thanks to my parents who supported me and made good choices for my educational needs.
Now, back to the point about video in posts and comments. I would like to see an opportunity for a Sign Language instance. There may be funding to cover the cost of storage to allow this, but this can only be a reality of video can be implemented natively.
Other instances can choose to turn this feature off? Let there be an option 👍
What's your favorite dinosaur?
Are you really the head of the Kwik-E-Mart?
Awesome!
do you guys plan on monetising this platform, if ever?
What's your favorite Linux distribution?
Hey every lemmy. This post on world, https://lemmy.world/post/2561210, maps to this post on my instance: https://boulder.ly/post/59184. When I click the links on world I get through to the linked posts. But when I click them on my site, I get this error.
This seems to be due to the original poster having used relative links which will only work on the instance they were posted. They could have posted fixed links which would have brought me to the content but pulled me out of my instance and asked me to log into another to participate in the conversation.
Both options seem to break the spirit of federation. Why weren't some kind of unique IDs common to all instances used so that relative links would work across all instances? Can we correct this going forward? Similarly, can we perform URL rewrites for fixed links on other instances? Thanks!
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.
I think a major obstacle is storage space. Many small to medium sized volunteer funded instances will have trouble affording it.
Have you managed to get enough funding so working on lemmy is a realistic "career" for you ? Also, are there a couple features that the community asked for but you didn't think about or even want initially?
What is the solution or plan to address that there is no content? I don't see much here so I go between this and Kbin and still reddit. This community is 99% less toxic than reddit and they are heading in a bad direction in the last years/s. But I want a viable alternative. Lots of content here is reposted over and over in different communities so the % of original content is very low if you consider that.
I’m really not experiencing that— because there isn’t The Algorithm feeding you Content™, lemmy is more reliant on you subscribing to specific communities and for them to be active. Personally, I’m subscribed to a lot of communities, but, likewise, I get a lot of active content. Im able to, in a satisfactory way, replicate the experience that I had on reddit— minus 99.9% of the toxicity and hostility, of course.
You may simply find that it’s a mater of fine-tuning your experience here, although the platform itself is still improving. I remember Reddit in its early days, and it, too, took time to improve.
To add to this, try sorting on something other than the default.
Awesome, looking forward to it
So great that you're doing this!
What do you think Lemmy still lacks and what are you planning to solve it?.
Do you think there may be future drama that causes a between major instances?
Beehaw defederating Lemmy.world
Lemmy.world defederating Hexbear
Lemmy.blahaj.zone defederating Lemmynsfw.com
Yeah there's definitely gonna be more
is a lemmy alternate r/place concept viable and if so when will that come
How did Lemmy start off? Did you know each other before and start it together or did somebody join up after a little bit of time ?
Please post your questions in this thread: https://lemmy.ml/post/2920188
Hello devs of Lemmy! I was wondering if you're going to improve the privacy of Lemmy as a whole, and make sure that it don't violate the GDPR. For instance what happens when a user deletes their account? The GDPR gives the right to the users to be forgotten (don't mistake this with the right to erase everything, a forum is allowed to have the data that the user has written as long as it's not sensitive, including name etc). I've seen posts where users are reporting that their account is not deleted when pressing the delete account button in the settings page. There is very little information about this.
The point being that the user name should be erased when someone deletes their account.
Would be great to have answers about this. And if you can also anwser some general about what you're going to improve privacy going forward.
Thanks!
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.
What's for dinner today?
I point out, if you don't know, that YunoHost v.11.0.10 does not install the Lemmy application on the Raspberry Pi 4 because Pi 4 is an Arm64 architecture and not Amd64.
cool bananas.
Have you found any limitations or pain points related to the ActivityPub protocol? Are their improvements you would like to see to the spec?
EDIT: On a related note, do you have any thoughts on the AT Protocol?