In the last weeks Lemmy has seen a lot of growth, with thousands of new users. To welcome them we are holding this AMA to answer questions from the community. You can ask about the beginnings of Lemmy, how we see the future of Lemmy, our long-term goals, what makes Lemmy different from Reddit, about internet and social media in general, as well as personal questions.
We'd also like to hear your overall feedback on Lemmy: What are its greatest strengths and weaknesses? How would you improve it? What's something you wish it had? What can our community do to ensure that we keep pulling users away from US tech companies, and into the fediverse?
Lemmy and Reddit may look similar at first glance, but there is a major difference. While Reddit is a corporation with thousands of employees and billionaire investors, Lemmy is nothing but an open source project run by volunteers. It was started in 2019 by @dessalines and @nutomic, turning into a fulltime job since 2020. For our income we are dependent on your donations, so please contribute if you can. We'd like to be able to add more full-time contributors to our co-op.
We will start answering questions from tomorrow (Wednesday). Besides @dessalines and @nutomic, other Lemmy contributors may also chime in to answer questions:
Here are our previous AMAs for those interested.
Coming from Reddit I feel Lemmy could use a way to sort posts within communities by top posts within a time frame we choose. That without this feature gamers and gooners will default to reddit over Lemmy.
I added a more flexible time-frame filter to lemmy that will come in 1.0.0 .
maybe I'm misreading what you're saying, but we already have this, works the same way as Reddit
https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html
You aren’t. I’m new I didn’t see it until now. Oof.
Welcome to Lemmy, here are a few pointers to help you settle in
Thanks!
WELCOME :)
Don't we already have that feature? I can choose to see the top posts of a community by hour, six hours, 12 hours, day, week, month, and so on, up to a year by clicking the sort type drop down menu on any community.
Do you mean be able to see the top posts between two different times, like top posts between 2022 and 2023?
I am on voyager and I do not have access to this feature.
Voyager thankfully does also have this feature. If you go to a community and press on the little icon at the top right, next to the 3 little dots, you'll open the 'sort by' menu. If you press the 'Top' option, it will then let you choose between those different time options.
Ah I see now. Thanks!