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Thank you a lot for building such an awesome platform! Here are my questions:
How did you get into communism? Were there any events that had an influence on you becoming communists and what personally motivates you to keep working on lemmy even though you could earn much more as developers working on proprietary software?
Why did you choose Rust for the backend and Inferno for the frontend?
P.S. Thank you for your work!
Performance.
For web services, check out https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/
For front-end, check out https://github.com/krausest/js-framework-benchmark
At the time of making lemmy, actix (for back end), and inferno, were two of the highest-performing in their areas.
So, is the official term for AMAs on Lemmy "Ask Us Anything" (AUA)? Or shall we call it "Lemmy Ask U"?
How much experience did you have with Rust when you started making Lemmy? What programming languages did you use before?
Just a little, on a few side projects. But lemmy was the one that I used to teach myself rust. Before I was mainly a Java developer.
Having a good idea + learning the new thing to program it in, is one of the best motivators for me, as I'm sure it is for a lot of devs.
Why isn't there a feature to allow individuals to block whole instances?
Something that trips me up a bit about federation and instances is the overlap of identical communities from different instances.
So for example, I'm an atheist, but it's be years since that was a part of my identity that moved me to care about atheist memes or patting myself on the back for not being religious, which (sorry guys), is what I feel like happens in those communities. So I get them out of my feed by blocking them the way I block plenty of other communities I'm not interested in. In Apollo I was spoiled by the 'hide subreddit' feature that I don't believe existed in Reddit itself, but which was crucial to my enjoyment of that particular app. But since there are multiple instances hosting a version of any given community, I must've blocked at least three 'atheist' and two or three 'atheistmemes' communities, which look the same to me, but are hosted on different instances.
Is my All feed destined to continue having different instance versions of all the topics I don't want to see, no matter how many times I block them, as long as there are more and more instances hosting those communities? I don't want to sound unimpressed by this new technology or ungrateful for the amazing service you all are building, but this feels like either a pretty big flaw in the federated user experience or a pretty big gap in my knowledge of how to work the platform. I'm entirely receptive to the idea I may just be doing something wrong.
Just curious. Thank you for everything you do.
Who are you guys if you don't mind me asking. What's your background?
Im from Germany and studied computer science. Was always very interested in open source and decentralized software. Worked in a couple different companies, but was never happy making profit for someone else. Luckily I found Lemmy shortly after Dessalines started the project, and put a lot of work into it. Then we found the NLnet funding which allowed us to work fulltime on the project.
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
Do you have any strong opinions on Richard Stallman? Is it good that he's back at the FSF?
Will lemmy users be able to interact with Mastodon users in future and is there a roadmap for lemmy?
Isn't there already some interop between Mastodon and Lemmy? I've seen Mastodon users comment on my Lemmy posts. Maybe Mastodon posts that aren't replies don't appear in Lemmy.
They already can, outside of lemmy users not being able to follow mastodon users, since we're a link-aggregator, not a micro-blogging platform.
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?
They can run their own lemmy server, and they don't need to federate with any servers run by or for proles or anyone else they find distasteful.
Also, the deepest faith you can have in a political ideology is when you don't recognize you have one.
Why are Lemmy devs so opposed to a Follow Thread feature? (The feature request is always immediately closed on github with the message: not planned)
Users being able to opt in to receive updates whenever a thread receives an edit to the post, a new comment, or a reply to a comment thread would be extremely useful.
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?
Now that right there is a very good idea. Thank you. Going to be a busy day for you guys.
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.