will uploading audio files become a thing? as a musician i need it
this post was submitted on 06 Aug 2023
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Thoughts on a GPL4?
Many examples indicate an even stronger license is needed, I will list a few
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The current RedHat debacle
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MuseScore's closed source Musehub (after being acquired by Ultimatw Guitar)
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Google commiting copyright infringement by combining free (as in freedom) software with code under Apache license for Android
We clearly need a stronger, more all encompassing license.
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Could you please create a middle ground between the nuclear option (banning sites) and the whack a mole option of banning users. It would be effective to be able to ban communities (at least temporarily) during bot spam attacks while you wait for admins to police up their site. Could there also be a way for admins to notify other admins that their site is spamming garbage so that admins know that their board is the cause of a problem and what that problem is?
We can't ban communities, because they aren't people and don't do actions. iirc there is a proposalto "temp-block" sites in the same way admins can "temp-ban" users, but we haven't been working on it.
Lemmy's bot problems used to be muuuch worse than they are now, and I encourage most instances to use the registration application method of signups, which has been time-tested by older forum software, and which we've found to work the best for blocking bots.
As far as admins notifying others, we don't want to reinvent the wheel by creating a chatroom in lemmy, so we recommend admins / mods use matrix or something else to communicate with each other about these things.
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For me the whole point of fediverse is not depending on a single party for your socials/subs. But the current climate in each instance forces users to have accounts in multiple instances.
As a Lemmy user I believe account migration should be a default Lemmy feature which enables true federation for end users. Any plans for this feature in the near future?
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Will an AMA comment sort type be added? Would be convenient to scroll by new replies from OP so we can easily keep up with AMAs
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Why is lemmy licensed under the AGPL3? What prompted you to take that decision?
Its a good hard copyleft license, and since its used in a network setting, the AGPLv3 over the GPLv3.
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I have heard some respectable communities, namely r/AskHistorians, express hesitance at coming to Lemmy in part over fears of appearing biased due to the overt political stance of Lemmy's creators. In other words, it's hard to be a neutral body in affiliation with anything that has an overt political stance.
I wonder what the devs of Lemmy think of this hesitance. Is it unreasonable and itself biased? Or do you see any potential for finding a way to facilitate a platform that would allow for a more neutral space?
"Neutrality" as a concept doesn't exist. People who claim to be neutral are usually pro status quo, so they don't need to express any political views because things are going well for them so far with the current politics.
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A few questions:
- Why did you name it Lemmy?
- What have some of the biggest challenges been in developing a Reddit-like community platform?
- What's a big feature you hope to implement someday?
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Any regrets during your time working on Lemmy? Like implementing a feature and then later on thinking "Shit. This sucks, but I can't remove it now or it will fuck up everything later."
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Why isn't there a feature to allow individuals to block whole instances?
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- What are your dream features or rework you would ask a magic genie? I mean nice features that require a huge amount of work
- If you were to rewrite Lemmy from scratch, would you do everything the same way or would you rethink something?
Thanks for your amazing work, you guys are changing the world!
While I'm only a collaborator and not a maintainer, your second question is kind of reality already since there's a UI rewrite in a very early state to use leptos instead of infernojs.
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Maybe I couldn't find it somewhere online, but is there a structured development roadmap for features you plan to implement? If not, what are the top priorities going forward? What are your long term goals with the project?
We don't have a written roadmap, but my current goals are:
- Performance improvements (DB, federation code)
- Creating a better onboarding site (joinlemmy)
- Stabilizing the API
- Becoming fully financially supported by donations, and hopefully growing our little dev co-op.
- Lots of code maintenance
- Notifications (Unified push)
- Better sorting to push content from smaller communities (a best sort)
- A better web UI written in rust (lemmy-ui-leptos)
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With instances already disappearing (eg. vlemmy), content is being lost. Are you considering a lemmy archive?
For communities that have been federated, their historical data, posts, comments, etc should still be available on other instances. So in a sense they're already archived.
Besides that, we have a backup / restore guide on the join-lemmy docs that show how to backup your DB, which every server should be doing.
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