Upcoming AMA with Lemmy's creators: Monday, 7 Aug, 1500 CEST : announcements

[-] mojo@lemm.ee 70 points 10 months ago

Lemmy feels really nice now with Sync for Lemmy. Feels like I'm just browsing Reddit.

[-] tonyn@lemmy.ml 35 points 10 months 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.

[-] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 17 points 10 months ago

Ironically enough Reddit was sustainable before they did the redesign, to chase profits, and caused their costs to balloon.

[-] maegul@lemmy.ml 12 points 10 months ago

Yep ... that's modern capitalistic "enshitification"

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[-] hch12907@programming.dev 20 points 10 months ago

Same here. Sync just feels more polished and it's pretty responsive.

[-] EternalWarBear@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

It does feel really nice. Although, I'm gonna keep the app I was using, Thunder, installed. I wanna see how it evolves.

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[-] OtakuAltair@lemm.ee 10 points 10 months ago

It's so smooth...

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[-] Sal@mander.xyz 54 points 10 months 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 😅

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 64 points 10 months ago

You just post questions as top-level replies to the stickied thread that day, and we'll be online to answer them.

[-] Sal@mander.xyz 30 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Cool. Thank you for doing this!

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 25 points 10 months ago

No probs!

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[+] AlmightySnoo@lemmy.ml 46 points 10 months ago

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[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 89 points 10 months 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.

[-] HotBoxghost2743@lemmy.ml 19 points 10 months ago

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

I love it a lot more we just need to get more active people
The idea behind this site is amazing and I like what it stands for.
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

[-] HotBoxghost2743@lemmy.ml 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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) 😆

[-] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 9 points 10 months ago

Hey, so you're able to set up a community any time you like. Remember that lemmy is decentralized. Have you considered creating your community on lemmy.tf or another instance? No matter what instance anyone is on, they'll be able to access your community. Alternatively, you can create your own instance and host your communities there.

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[-] ChaosCharlie@lemmy.ca 38 points 10 months ago

Thanks for helping to build this kickass platform dessalines! You rock

[-] maegul@lemmy.ml 36 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

[-] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 16 points 10 months ago

Why not?

[-] maegul@lemmy.ml 22 points 10 months ago

Just thought it'd be polite to ask before doing so.

[-] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 15 points 10 months ago

You're an exemplary person!

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 12 points 10 months ago

Sure.

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[-] 1984 30 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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.

[-] eleitl@lemmy.ml 15 points 10 months ago

We certainly need a minimal logging mode for instances, and simple ways to comply with GDPR deletion requests.

[-] jarfil@lemmy.ml 16 points 10 months ago

I want GDPR export.

Next, GDPR import of the same data (aka, account migration)

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[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 27 points 10 months ago

This is great! I hope we get more AMAs on Lemmy (and with external personalities)

[-] wiki_me@lemmy.ml 25 points 10 months ago

There was an AMA in r/linux and r/opensource about three years ago, I think we should do new ones at some point.

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[+] 4815162342@lemmy.ml 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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[-] misterharbies@lemmy.nz 18 points 10 months ago

Any plans to integrate video into posts and comments natively?

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[-] vettnerk@lemmy.ml 17 points 10 months ago

What's your favorite dinosaur?

[-] spitz@lemmy.ml 16 points 10 months ago

Are you really the head of the Kwik-E-Mart?

[-] WigglingWalrus@feddit.uk 15 points 10 months ago

Awesome!

[-] Emu@lemmy.ml 14 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] BrooklynMan@lemmy.ml 20 points 10 months ago

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.

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[-] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I think once "Hot" is fixed, the experience will be much better. Edit: Should now be fixed in version 0.18.3

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[-] _comfortablyAverage_@lemmy.ml 14 points 10 months ago

do you guys plan on monetising this platform, if ever?

[-] deadlyremote@lemmy.ml 13 points 10 months ago

What's your favorite Linux distribution?

[-] 0110101001100010@lemmyadmin.site 11 points 10 months ago

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.

Error Message due to unfound link

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!

[-] misterharbies@lemmy.nz 10 points 10 months 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 9 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Niquarl@lemmy.ml 10 points 10 months ago

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?

[-] TiredNerdDad@lemmy.ml 9 points 10 months ago

Awesome, looking forward to it

[-] Mcballs1234@lemmy.ml 9 points 10 months ago

Do you think there may be future drama that causes a between major instances?

[-] OtakuAltair@lemm.ee 11 points 10 months ago

Beehaw defederating Lemmy.world

Lemmy.world defederating Hexbear

Lemmy.blahaj.zone defederating Lemmynsfw.com

Yeah there's definitely gonna be more

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