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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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[–] diamat@lemmy.ml 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Thanks a lot for the work you do! How do you get by with such a limited amount of funds? How sustainable is your financial situation if donations don't pick up considerably?

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 11 points 6 days ago

I live in Spain, the cost of living here is much cheaper than Germany or especially the United States. I also dont need luxuries, and have enough money saved to last for a while. If donations are not enough I could always work for some company, and spend less time on Lemmy.

[–] asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Do you plan on moving away from GitHub to something else like Forgejo?

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 days ago

Once its mature, I personally wouldn't be opposed to moving issue tracking off github and into a federated one like forgejo.

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Do you plan to introduce some kind of post tags into Lemmy, preferably something that will behave like Hashtags on Mastodon and other activitypub platforms? I know that Lemmy has been embedding community name as a hashtag for a while now, though having tags that can be populated by users would help discovery greatly.

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Lemmy is not for microblogging, so I dont think hashtags make sense.

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Well they don't have to show up as hashtags to users on Lemmy, they can show up as their own designated tags you add to the post on creation of editing. Just some form of post tags to indicate the category of a post (could even be specific to communities like subreddit flairs) but they would show up as hashtags on Mastodon, similar to how Lemmy already embeds a hashtag of the community into posts.

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 days ago

Ah, post tags are currently work in progress. They are also going to be federated.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 days 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)

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