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Lemmy AMA March 2025 (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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months 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)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Hello, would it be possible to include a button next to the up/down vote button, which marks a post as "read" and prevents it from being shown again? While scrolling I just sometimes see the same post again on the next day

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (9 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 2 months 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?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Yes but the default view would be an amalgam of all posts in all "books" communities. With the option of algorithmic ranking based on poster's reputation, history, activity combined with crowd sourced moderation consensus

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