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Lemmy AMA March 2025 (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by nutomic@lemmy.ml to c/announcements@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] testman@lemmy.ml 10 points 5 days ago (6 children)

What Is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?

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[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago (4 children)

How would you improve it?

a way to filter out posts that have no engagement or comments from others would be helpful since the larger instances flood my feed w hundreds/thousands of news links that flood out the discourse on lemmy.

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[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Do you plan to introduce some kind of post tags into Lemmy, preferably something that will behave like Hashtags on Mastodon and other activitypub platforms? I know that Lemmy has been embedding community name as a hashtag for a while now, though having tags that can be populated by users would help discovery greatly.

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[–] Itte@sh.itjust.works 12 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (11 children)

What is your opinion on Bluesky being more popular than Mastodone because it is easier for most?
Will Lemmy can become easy like Bluesky? Are there plans like that?

thanks

edit: lemmy dev replies only please

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

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 3 days ago

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

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 16 points 6 days ago (31 children)

Communities should be more unified across servers, especially for niche ones. I want to see an active Metroid community, I don't give a crap what instance is hosting it (or if it's a mostly-opaque medley of instances) so long as I'm federated with it. This is probably the biggest UX misunderstanding new users have.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 14 points 6 days ago (16 children)

Consolidation isn't always a good thing, communities on different instances will have different styles and trends, and that's a good thing. The benefit of federated social media is just as much in local instances as it is in federation, unique niches are going to have unique comments even if the post is the exact same.

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