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Lemmy AMA March 2025 (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 days 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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[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 57 points 6 days ago (10 children)

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?

One of the biggest issue at this point is probably the registration experience. There are quite a few occurrences on !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com of users not sure whether their email has been validated or not, and at the moment they really need to look out for the toastify notification on their first try, later attempts won't show it.

Most recent example: https://lemmy.ml/post/27607055?scrollToComments=true

If there could be a way to inform a user saying "your email address has been validated, please wait for an administrator to activate your account, you can reach out to them at xxx", that would be great.

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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.

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[–] usernameusername@lemm.ee 42 points 6 days ago (4 children)

How are you?

[–] sleeplessone@lemmy.ml 11 points 5 days ago

Chilling in the morning before I start my day job.

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[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 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!!

[–] Microw@lemm.ee 1 points 3 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?

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[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 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)

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 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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[–] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Old user, haven't been active recently. Where'd all this growth come from?? Another reddit refugee situation?

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 47 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

!reddit@lemmy.world started to ban people based on upvotes

!buyeuropean@feddit.uk movement has motivated people to look around for European alternatives to Reddit

[–] inlandempire@jlai.lu 48 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Blaze means the website Reddit, not the community they linked

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[–] testman@lemmy.ml 9 points 5 days ago (6 children)

What Is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?

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[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 25 points 6 days ago (3 children)

From a code architecture perspective, how close is Lemmy/ActivityPub to reaching its maximum capacity for posts/comments per second? Are there any ways to 10x the load ActivityPub can handle?
With Nicole in everyone's DMs, what does the future of spam filtering look like on Lemmy?

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 17 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

There is no specific maximum capacity, in theory it can scale indefinitely with horizontal scaling. Also see my reply here regarding scaling.
0.19.10 already includes a fix to remove private messages when a user gets banned which should help a lot. There is an issue about disabling private messages by default, but Im not sure if that will be necessary. Also 1.0 will include a plugin system, so other devs and instance admins can write their own checks. That way spam waves can be fought in a more flexible way, without having to get a change merged into Lemmy and then waiting for a new release.

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