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.
Note: This will be the thread tmrw, so you can use this thread to ask and vote on questions beforehand.
What are the challenges posed by moderation (and admin in general) that you didn’t think of when launching the first instance?
(and: How can things get improved, how can people help?)
Will you implement an sorting algorithm that would show more content from small, neglected, unknown communities/instances on the main /all/ timeline so that they are more discoverable and will be seen rather than only showing the most-liked posts from huge communities/instances?
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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- Are you proud/happy/satisfied how Lemmy progresses and its current status?
- Does it make sense to spend your time to develop client apps when there are so many other already (including open source)
- What are your ambitions/goals/hopes for Lemmy in one year from now?
- What do you see as the biggest issue for Lemmy (as a platform) which must be addressed?
Ps: thank you for your work!
- For sure! I’m just glad we can provide an alternative that some people enjoy and get some use out of, and to not feel like they’re just adding to a company’s market cap. Development has certainly picked up with this massive migration, and people have helped us find and fix so many security and performance issues that just two people would never have found before.
- The current official UIs (lemmy-ui and somewhat jerboa), have had a ton of developer contributions, and more people added as direct contributors besides me, and they’ve made those apps better than I ever could. So while I never want to be completely hands-off from those, its wonderful to have the help.
- A few I can think of: I hope that performance issues stabilize, that we can create a better onboarding site / improve join-lemmy.org , do lots of code maintenance, become financially stable and grow our little developer co-op into more than just us two, learn how to scale handling issues better, that we can add notifications / unified push, better sorting, and move the web-ui over to a more stable app in rust / leptos : lemmy-ui-leptos
- Currently, performance and security, so that we can focus on the above.
Thanks!
Why is selfhosted Docker such a mess?
Why Unicode usernames aren’t supported yet? After all, a big part of the world’s population don’t use the Latin alphabet in their native languages.
How do you combat bot accounts and illegal content? Is it moderation or algorithms or both?
If an individual wants to help develop this, how would they go about doing so?
Go to Github, look through open issues and find something you are interested to work on. Basically like any other open source project. Then make a pull request with your changes. You can ask for help from other devs in Matrix or directly on Github.
Is there anything happening in the Fediverse that makes you concerned for its future?
The whole philosophy of it is to give power back to the users and not be kept in a box, but do you think the current mindset of most people using the typical social media platforms will bring bad habits here and squander what the Fediverse stands for? This is more of a concern of mine, but I’m new here
I recently submitted a PR for stopping pictrs image federation. IMO the images themselves do not need to be downloaded when served by another pictrs instance. This would reduce the amount of diskspace and reduce the burden of hosting images that are unwanted by the instance owners.
What are your thoughts on this, and do you think this will be merged? https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3799
Where did the Lemmy name originated from? How long was the development of Lemmy?
Is there any way to unsubscribe and defederate from all instances to get a fresh start while keeping the same domain?
With so many growing instances, were finding a lot of duplicate communities within each one, wich results in a lot of duplicate posts by cross posters.
Do you think it will be possible to aggregate similar communities together in some way?
I agree with this, but I find it amusingly ironic that questions on the issue itself are also many lol
Lemmy is obviously getting bigger and bigger. Especially with the revolts against Reddit, and it seems currently we are in a similar state to where Reddit was when it was first started. Are there any tools you currently plan on implementing for server admins to prevent bot accounts, server toxicity, etc?
Also, do you guys have any worries about the fediverse devolving into a toxic cesspool of politics and unhinged users, like Reddit did? My worry is that over time, Lemmy as a whole will devolve into Reddit and be like one big virus that just spread over time due to growth. Once idiots find a platform to settle on they stay there. I think most people don’t want that.
