Lemmy Project Priorities Observations

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I've raised my voice loudly on meta communities, github, and created new [email protected] and [email protected] communities.

I feel like the performance problems are being ignored for over 30 days when there are a half-dozen solutions that could be coded in 5 to 10 hours of labor by one person.

I've been developing client/server messaging apps professionally since 1984, and I firmly believe that Lemmy is currently suffering from a lack of testing by the developers and lack of concern for data loss. A basic e-mail MTA in 1993 would send a "did not deliver" message back to message sender, but Lemmy just drops delivery and there is no mention of this in the release notes//introduction on GitHub. I also find that the Lemmy developers do not like to "eat their own dog food" and actually use Lemmy's communities to discuss the ongoing development and priorities of Lemmy coding. They are not testing the code and sampling the data very much, and I am posting here, using Lemmy code, as part of my personal testing! I spent over 100 hours in June 2023 testing Lemmy technical problems, especially with performance and lost data delivery.

I'll toss it into this echo chamber.

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.world and the sign-up closing (bulletintree.com)

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yesterday .world had to turn off sign-up and even shut down shitposting community.

This is basically the front-door of Lemmy. And as others are starting to notice, 60K users after all the people seeking better and trying out things isn't that many.. And there are seemingly a lot of people who use multiple servers given the technical instability of Lemmy's code... I am one of those people who spends 10 minutes a day on 4 servers, but I'm cutting back because content just isn't there and it's now often gaming topics and news making the rounds as duplicate stories over a 2 to 4 day period (besides memes)

Social media in general... there was so much Facebook hate for the past 8 years... but not much betterment came of it. Today looking over Reddit, it hasn't really changed that much in the past 4 months... there was a group of dissatisfied people who don't seem to want to actually build something better - just want to protest Reddit.

YouTube and TV advertising - that's a huge topic. YouTube does have a lot of small-time original creators, but is the money the reason why? You can''t make money on Reddit or Lemmy unless you have a business shop or something related to specialty topics (such as auto repair in a discussion community about same).

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

For a 4.5 year old project, Lemmy's two core developers have pushed the idea that corporate media is bad and this is the alternative.

But Lemmy had so little content prior to April 2023... I've see single-topic BBS systems with far more content...

Hate-of-reddit isn't exactly a foundation for original content out of goodness of people's heart. Hate of Threads from Meta, hate of X rename of Twitter. So much anger at Elon Musk, media systems in general that's been expressed on Lemmy these recent months.

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

looks like other servers shut down image hosting

https://lemm.ee/post/5839513

"It will not possible to upload any new avatars or banners while this limit is in effect."

yha, moderation isn't just for posts and comments, and per-community moderation probably doesn't work so well when new communities can be created easily (the mod being the creator who puts in offensive material). And let's be honest, a lot of what has become routine shitposting and memes is "funny" because it tries to be offensive. Without Lemmy's technical growing pains, that might be able to fit in the puzzle, but now it's just people trying to normalize offense to keep new people from joining and roots from growing.

Reddit had built a ton of IP address and other fingerprinting even 13 years ago - being on an advertising network with partners like Google probably helps in identifying the same computer with multiple accounts...

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

A new update on the situation: https://lemm.ee/post/5905754

"As shared by the lemmy.world team, over the past few days, some people have been spamming one of their communities with CSAM images. Lemmy has been attacked in various ways before, but this is clearly on a whole new level of depravity, as it’s first and foremost an attack on actual victims of child abuse, in addition to being an attack on the users and admins on Lemmy."

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

"For the longer term, I have some further ideas:
4) Invite-based registrations
I believe that one of the best ways to effectively combat spam and malicious users is to implement an invite system on Lemmy. I have wanted to work on such a system ever since I first set up this instance, but real life and other things have been getting in the way, so I haven’t had a chance. However, with the current situation, I believe this feature is more important then ever, and I’m very hopeful I will be able to make time to work on it very soon.

My idea would be to grant our users a few invites, which would replenish every month if used. An invite will be required to sign up on lemm.ee after that point. The system will keep track of the invite hierarchy, and in extreme cases (such as spambot sign-ups), inviters may be held responsible for rule breaking users they have invited.

While this will certainly create a barrier of entry to signing up on lemm.ee, we are already one of the biggest instances, and I think at this point, such a barrier will do more good than harm."