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We're the creators of Lemmy, Ask Us Anything. Starts Monday, 7 Aug, 1500 CEST (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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[–] zeograd@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years 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?

[–] NSFWife@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years 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 2 years 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.

[–] punseye@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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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[–] linucs@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

What are your dream features or rework you would ask a magic genie? I mean nice features that require a huge amount of work
If you were to rewrite Lemmy from scratch, would you do everything the same way or would you rethink something?

Thanks for your amazing work, you guys are changing the world!

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[–] Gxost@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (6 children)

When the possibility to block instances will be implemented?

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[–] andrr_464@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

When did you first think of starting lemmy?

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 years ago

https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/07-history-of-lemmy.html

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[–] billbasher@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 years 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.

[–] julianwgs@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 2 years 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 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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[–] h3ndrik@feddit.de 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What's your oppinion on lemmy being used by a few hundreds of people for quite some time and then recently exploding overnight with new instances and tens of thousands of new users. That certeinly changed some things...

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[–] Limeey@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

I recently submitted a PR for stopping pictrs image federation. IMO the images themselves do not need to be downloaded when served by another pictrs instance. This would reduce the amount of diskspace and reduce the burden of hosting images that are unwanted by the instance owners.

What are your thoughts on this, and do you think this will be merged? https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3799

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