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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.

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[–] NuclearDolphin@lemmy.ml 33 points 3 days ago (2 children)

No questions right now. Just wanted to say thank you for your hard work.

I know y'all catch a lot of shit and get hammered with requests/demands, so I wanted to let you know that your work is greatly appreciated.

Thanks for dedicating your time and energy to making a non-corporate, federated social environment possible.

Being on Lemmy has been a breath of fresh air.

[–] dullbananas@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thanks so much for doing your part to make Lemmy an active place. That's the main thing that sets us free.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 days ago

Thx! Really appreciate it, and I'm glad someone thinks its worthwhile work we're doing.

[–] daytonah@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)
  1. I have no idea how and which server I joined, is there any manial I can read better yet visually see how servers are connected that are federated? Thx. And when we search something does it search across all servers? Thanks.
[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

Welcome to Lemmy, here are a few pointers to help you settle in

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago (3 children)

When will anyone be able to click the following /c/books And see an agglomeration of all "books" communities on all federated server? I don't mean multireddits Thanks!!

Hopefully PieFed will do that one day. In the mean time they combine comments from all posts with the same link, which is half way there.

[–] Microw@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You mean like a list of all communities named "books" or "books.."? And then you could choose to visit individual communities by clicking on them?

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 points 23 hours ago

Yes, exactly, because I'm never going to visit every /book times the numbers of server on the fediverse and no one else ever will.

It HAS to all be in /c/books or else tgere will be only one server with /c/books that has over 80% of the user., defeating the point of decentralisation

[–] diamat@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Thanks a lot for the work you do! How do you get by with such a limited amount of funds? How sustainable is your financial situation if donations don't pick up considerably?

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 days ago

I live in Spain, the cost of living here is much cheaper than Germany or especially the United States. I also dont need luxuries, and have enough money saved to last for a while. If donations are not enough I could always work for some company, and spend less time on Lemmy.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

When will users be able to frictionlessly migrate between instances without losing their posts, their comments, their history, their relationships, their reputation etc? (Without requiring the consent of the exiting instance owner, or that this server still even exists, as they sometimes don't)

[–] asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Do you plan on moving away from GitHub to something else like Forgejo?

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 days ago

Once its mature, I personally wouldn't be opposed to moving issue tracking off github and into a federated one like forgejo.

[–] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 18 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Just wanted to say I LOVE lemmy! It's a really positive community, the atmosphere is great and I like how it's unique but also familiar. I really appreciate your work on it. I know this is AMA... what's your favourite animal?

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