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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 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.
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I am new to Lemmy, so haven’t really looked into if the following is possible but can I create groups of communities with a similar topic across multiple instances?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

https://piefed.social/ has topics and feeds (user managed multireddits)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Do you have any plans to make it easier to manage the images stored in pictrs? One issue I have is that I used to proxy images, I no longer do that, but now I have like 300GB on backblaze doing nothing. In this post I outlined more precisely what I mean.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This is something which should be handled by external tools, for example lemmy-thumbnail-cleaner.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (8 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!!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (2 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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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 week 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 [email protected] 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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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago (3 children)

+1 on registration experience being the #1 issue.

Would also be cool if we could stop 404/500ing deleted posts and instead display some indication it has been deleted. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishment.

Thanks for Lemmy! 💙

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

[email protected] started to ban people based on upvotes

[email protected] movement has motivated people to look around for European alternatives to Reddit

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Blaze means the website Reddit, not the community they linked

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (3 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.

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