Upcoming AMA with Lemmy's creators: Monday, 7 Aug, 1500 CEST

Dessalines@lemmy.mlmod to Announcements@lemmy.ml – 816 points –

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.

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

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.

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

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

Such a perfect word. I'm glad someone invented it

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

It does feel really nice. Although, I'm gonna keep the app I was using, Thunder, installed. I wanna see how it evolves.

For some reason I couldn’t get into using Mlem, Thunder and Memmy are my favorite so far.

cool thats not a question

Is this a question? Why am I replying to you? Why am I on Lemmy? How did star dust turn into two people typing to each other right now?

yep 100% to answer all your questions, it's true, you are dust

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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 😅

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

Post doesn’t mention, where is the AMA? Here or in a different community?

As the post mentions, it will be stickied to the top of lemmy.ml

Thanks for the details. May be I’m missing something, but I don’t see that detail in the post.

Oops my bad, that was something I responded to in a comment.

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

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

Or on bluesky (also working on federating)

(also working on federating)

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

Some people are working on bridges, but yeah it will be it's own federation

Hopefully they make it compatible with Activitypub, or this is just gonna divide the community

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 @nutomic@lemmy.ml thoughts on this.

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

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

I want GDPR export.

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

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

Any plans to integrate video into posts and comments natively?

There was iframe support while posting and then it was scrubbed off due to security reasons. I hope it can be brought back again securely or some other method exists.

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

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!

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.

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.

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.

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

I think once "Hot" is fixed, the experience will be much better. Edit: Should now be fixed in version 0.18.3

Isn't Hot working correctly at the moment?

It used to show months old posts, but that might have been fixed in 0.18.3?

It should be, at least it's my experience since the update

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?

Beehaw defederating Lemmy.world

Lemmy.world defederating Hexbear

Lemmy.blahaj.zone defederating Lemmynsfw.com

Yeah there's definitely gonna be more

That's why it's good idea to avoid the major/big instances and host on your own if possible (or choose some small random instances and check out their Blocklist+rules)

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How did Lemmy start off? Did you know each other before and start it together or did somebody join up after a little bit of time ?

Hello devs of Lemmy! I was wondering if you're going to improve the privacy of Lemmy as a whole, and make sure that it don't violate the GDPR. For instance what happens when a user deletes their account? The GDPR gives the right to the users to be forgotten (don't mistake this with the right to erase everything, a forum is allowed to have the data that the user has written as long as it's not sensitive, including name etc). I've seen posts where users are reporting that their account is not deleted when pressing the delete account button in the settings page. There is very little information about this.

The point being that the user name should be erased when someone deletes their account.

Would be great to have answers about this. And if you can also anwser some general about what you're going to improve privacy going forward.

Thanks!

I have a suggestion about lemmy. Could there be a way where Lemmy can check for community names across instances to help reduce multiple communities of the same name? For example, say someone wants to create a Linux community on their instance and during the creation Lemmy searches an index of community names and finds one already named that name, it would then recommend the existing community which already exists be used or a new community name be made.

My theory is to help reduce the multiple communities of the same name posting the same article numerous times on the all feed.

Have you found any limitations or pain points related to the ActivityPub protocol? Are their improvements you would like to see to the spec?

EDIT: On a related note, do you have any thoughts on the AT Protocol?

Why do you keep using Reddit terms and phrases (like AMA)? Make your platform distinct from Reddit otherwise you're just a branch or copy-cat of that and it will fail...

AMA stands for ask me anything and that is not Reddit exclusive