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We're the creators of Lemmy, Ask Us Anything. Starts Monday, 7 Aug, 1500 CEST (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by dessalines@lemmy.ml to c/announcements@lemmy.ml

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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.

Note: This will be the thread tmrw, so you can use this thread to ask and vote on questions beforehand.

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[–] Graphine@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lemmy is obviously getting bigger and bigger. Especially with the revolts against Reddit, and it seems currently we are in a similar state to where Reddit was when it was first started. Are there any tools you currently plan on implementing for server admins to prevent bot accounts, server toxicity, etc?

Also, do you guys have any worries about the fediverse devolving into a toxic cesspool of politics and unhinged users, like Reddit did? My worry is that over time, Lemmy as a whole will devolve into Reddit and be like one big virus that just spread over time due to growth. Once idiots find a platform to settle on they stay there. I think most people don't want that.

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[–] punseye@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Wish we could have the fediverse of instant messaging.

Fediverse instant messaging could work like email, just like how someone with gmail id can send mail to yahoo id.

username@whatsapp sending messages to username@telegram, that's how it could work

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[–] NSFWife@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How was the upvote weighting system designed?

Where did it come from?

Any plans for it changing over time?

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago

https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html

I commented about a sort called Best above, that should also help boost smaller communities, that we'll eventually add.

[–] linucs@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know about your decision regarding Threads but what are your thoughts on the blog post from the Mastodon CEO? https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/what-to-know-about-threads/ especially the address to the EEE concern

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[–] zeograd@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

First of all, thank you for creating Lemmy!

Are you confident that ActivityPub is the right protocol for large numbers of users/communities/instances? I've read about concerns about the scalability of ActivityPub due to its "push" nature, and I'm wondering how reliable those concerns can be.
Is there a "right" maximum size for instances (user or community-wise) so that the load and reliability is properly spread?
(On behalf of a colleague not yet using Lemmy) Is it planned or enviable to provide OAuth/OpenID for auth, so that a user could have created an account in instanceA but log in to instanceB with the same account; potentially reducing the load on instanceA and/or allowing interaction with content federated with instanceB but not instanceA?

[–] Gxost@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (6 children)

When the possibility to block instances will be implemented?

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[–] julianwgs@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for creating Lemmy! I like it a lot :) Do you have any ideas/plans on a privacy and user focused algorithmic view? If Lemmy wants to be big, I think we need something like this.

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No, I dont even know what you mean by that.

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[–] billbasher@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If an individual wants to help develop this, how would they go about doing so?

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago

Go to Github, look through open issues and find something you are interested to work on. Basically like any other open source project. Then make a pull request with your changes. You can ask for help from other devs in Matrix or directly on Github.