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.
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?
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.
I think a major obstacle is storage space. Many small to medium sized volunteer funded instances will have trouble affording it.
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)
Sign me up.
Let’s sing you up! /s
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”
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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
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.
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!
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 ?
is a lemmy alternate r/place concept viable and if so when will that come
do you guys plan on monetising this platform, if ever?
Please post your questions in this thread: https://lemmy.ml/post/2920188
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!
What’s your favorite Linux distribution?
Any plans to integrate video into posts and comments natively?
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The Deaf Community uses sign language which can only be captured and distributed as video. Many Deaf people did not have a good education, therefore their English is not at a level to be fluent. Their first language will be Sign Language. My first Language is Sign Language, but I am also fluent in English. I was privileged to be able to have a good education, thanks to my parents who supported me and made good choices for my educational needs.
Now, back to the point about video in posts and comments. I would like to see an opportunity for a Sign Language instance. There may be funding to cover the cost of storage to allow this, but this can only be a reality of video can be implemented natively.
Other instances can choose to turn this feature off? Let there be an option 👍
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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.
Cool. Thank you for doing this!
No probs!
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.
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.
What do you think Lemmy still lacks and what are you planning to solve it?.
