Announcements

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

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.

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

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

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 😅

Any plans to integrate video into posts and comments natively?

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

What's your favorite dinosaur?

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

What's your favorite Linux distribution?

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

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!

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.

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

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.

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?

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