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

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (7 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

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

[–] EternalWarBear 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

It's so smooth...

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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 @[email protected] thoughts on this.

We need to make sure the network can't be shut down for gdpr reasons.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I want GDPR export.

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

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

You're an exemplary person!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or on bluesky (also working on federating)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

(also working on federating)

Bluesky uses ATProtocol—not ActivityPub—and will not be compatible with Mastodon or Lemmy.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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 😅

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Cool. Thank you for doing this!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any plans to integrate video into posts and comments natively?

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Also, it would help raise outsode awareness about the platform

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

What's your favorite dinosaur?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

What's your favorite Linux distribution?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year 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!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year 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?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

To add to this, try sorting on something other than the default.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

So great that you're doing this!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

What do you think Lemmy still lacks and what are you planning to solve it?.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

is a lemmy alternate r/place concept viable and if so when will that come

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