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.
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I have a question which will become really important as the platform grows.
It’s spelled GDPR.
Some changes would be needed perhaps to not store sensitive personal information in databases and so on, but I’m not sure. Would be interesting to get @nutomic@lemmy.ml thoughts on this.
We need to make sure the network can’t be shut down for gdpr reasons.
We certainly need a minimal logging mode for instances, and simple ways to comply with GDPR deletion requests.
I want GDPR export.
Next, GDPR import of the same data (aka, account migration)
Sign me up.
Let’s sing you up! /s
Lemmy feels really nice now with Sync for Lemmy. Feels like I’m just browsing Reddit.
Lemmy gives me the same feeling that Reddit did when I first discovered it in 2011. Back before they cared about being profitable and sustainable, when it was a growing community. I don’t know if Lemmy is sustainable or not, but I like the way it feels to be a part of this.
Sync really makes it feel like a seamless transition though. Jerboa is good, but Sync is what I’m used to.
Ironically enough Reddit was sustainable before they did the redesign, to chase profits, and caused their costs to balloon.
Yep … that’s modern capitalistic “enshitification”
Such a perfect word. I’m glad someone invented it
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Same here. Sync just feels more polished and it’s pretty responsive.
It’s so smooth…
cool thats not a question
Is this a question? Why am I replying to you? Why am I on Lemmy? How did star dust turn into two people typing to each other right now?
yep 100% to answer all your questions, it’s true, you are dust
Hey every lemmy. This post on world, https://lemmy.world/post/2561210, maps to this post on my instance: https://boulder.ly/post/59184. When I click the links on world I get through to the linked posts. But when I click them on my site, I get this error.
This seems to be due to the original poster having used relative links which will only work on the instance they were posted. They could have posted fixed links which would have brought me to the content but pulled me out of my instance and asked me to log into another to participate in the conversation.
Both options seem to break the spirit of federation. Why weren’t some kind of unique IDs common to all instances used so that relative links would work across all instances? Can we correct this going forward? Similarly, can we perform URL rewrites for fixed links on other instances? Thanks!
Have you managed to get enough funding so working on lemmy is a realistic “career” for you ? Also, are there a couple features that the community asked for but you didn’t think about or even want initially?
do you guys plan on monetising this platform, if ever?
Not sure if you saw the news, but the BBC are experimenting with their own Mastadon instance. They can probably afford to host video.
I understand that many instances are run by volunteers and hobbyists. But that doesn’t mean that a business such as BBC couldn’t come and host their own instance.
And I don’t think I implied that you wanted to ban video. I just want to see video integrated natively into Lemmy so that instances can turn it on or off. A Youtube link is no good. I don’t like being rickrolled.
Any plans to integrate video into posts and comments natively?
There was iframe support while posting and then it was scrubbed off due to security reasons. I hope it can be brought back again securely or some other method exists.
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The Deaf Community uses sign language which can only be captured and distributed as video. Many Deaf people did not have a good education, therefore their English is not at a level to be fluent. Their first language will be Sign Language. My first Language is Sign Language, but I am also fluent in English. I was privileged to be able to have a good education, thanks to my parents who supported me and made good choices for my educational needs.
Now, back to the point about video in posts and comments. I would like to see an opportunity for a Sign Language instance. There may be funding to cover the cost of storage to allow this, but this can only be a reality of video can be implemented natively.
Other instances can choose to turn this feature off? Let there be an option 👍
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Really cool! I’m excited to learn more about you and the project!
What’s the format? Should we submit questions beforehand, or will you process questions that arrive at the start time? I’ve never participated in an AMA 😅
You just post questions as top-level replies to the stickied thread that day, and we’ll be online to answer them.
Cool. Thank you for doing this!
No probs!
Post doesn’t mention, where is the AMA? Here or in a different community?
As the post mentions, it will be stickied to the top of lemmy.ml
Thanks for the details. May be I’m missing something, but I don’t see that detail in the post.
Oops my bad, that was something I responded to in a comment.
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What’s your favorite Linux distribution?
So great that you’re doing this!
What is the solution or plan to address that there is no content? I don’t see much here so I go between this and Kbin and still reddit. This community is 99% less toxic than reddit and they are heading in a bad direction in the last years/s. But I want a viable alternative. Lots of content here is reposted over and over in different communities so the % of original content is very low if you consider that.
I’m really not experiencing that— because there isn’t The Algorithm feeding you Content™, lemmy is more reliant on you subscribing to specific communities and for them to be active. Personally, I’m subscribed to a lot of communities, but, likewise, I get a lot of active content. Im able to, in a satisfactory way, replicate the experience that I had on reddit— minus 99.9% of the toxicity and hostility, of course.
You may simply find that it’s a mater of fine-tuning your experience here, although the platform itself is still improving. I remember Reddit in its early days, and it, too, took time to improve.
To add to this, try sorting on something other than the default.
I think once “Hot” is fixed, the experience will be much better. Edit: Should now be fixed in version 0.18.3
Isn’t Hot working correctly at the moment?
It used to show months old posts, but that might have been fixed in 0.18.3?
It should be, at least it’s my experience since the update
Awesome! That’s good to hear.
Would you want this promoted on other platforms (basically mastodon), not that that would necessarily garner much more participation?
Sure.
Why not?
Just thought it’d be polite to ask before doing so.
You’re an exemplary person!
Or on bluesky (also working on federating)
(also working on federating)
Bluesky uses ATProtocol—not ActivityPub—and will not be compatible with Mastodon or Lemmy.
Hopefully they make it compatible with Activitypub, or this is just gonna divide the community
Some people are working on bridges, but yeah it will be it’s own federation
Are you really the head of the Kwik-E-Mart?
What do you think Lemmy still lacks and what are you planning to solve it?.
is a lemmy alternate r/place concept viable and if so when will that come
