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Lemmy AMA March 2025 (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 4 points 3 weeks ago (14 children)

What's the vision for using lemmy? User should create an account on one server, and use all? Or should create users on multiple servers? The first one seems like the way to go, but it wasn't quite clear for me when I signed up

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

User should create an account on one server

Mostly this. Some people might want a few accounts but those would be hardcore users.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

Will there be any way to block users from certain instances to hide their comments?
What are the plans the improve discoverability?

I'm quite discontent with how few options there is to explore Lemmy. And it doesn't helps that the top posts are always related to politics.

Will there be any type of word filtering?

We should have community unifying.

I know people have already said it many times, but the joining experience could be simpler and less confusing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

I'm quite discontent with how few options there is to explore Lemmy. And it doesn't helps that the top posts are always related to politics.

Make sure to sort by Scaled sometimes too.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Do you feel a recommendation algorithm of some sorts is something lemmy will need for bigger audiences?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks 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] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks 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?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks 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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