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.
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.
I point out, if you don’t know, that YunoHost v.11.0.10 does not install the Lemmy application on the Raspberry Pi 4 because Pi 4 is an Arm64 architecture and not Amd64.
there need to be rules to avoid it turning into name-calling and concern trolling around your communism
Pry unavoidable, but I bet nearly all the questions will be good-faith ones. For the most part the lemmyverse is still 99% less toxic than reddit.
I think there are some legitimate concerns here though. Not necessarily of the ideology the primary devs, but the way it manifests with a soft ban on certain topics (Ukraine), and how they seem fine letting lemmygrad trolls shut down basically every other world news thread. And I’m not talking about people having different opinions here - I’m talking about users who openly state that they seek to disrupt discussion in order to deny the information space to non-ML ideas entirely. I have reported a number of these comments which are blatantly and openly stating that they only intend to troll and disrupt and nothing ever happens. Yet if you take a slightly wrong tone in responding to the sel-avowed trolls they are quite quick with the ban hammer.
Well my personal take is that it’s his instance and if he wants to restrict non-commie stuff here well that’s bad but ultimately it’s his instance and it’s why I only have an alt on this instance for emergencies, I can’t align with commie beliefs. The software is open-source and independent of his beliefs and that’s what matters and I also respect him for the work he did.
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.
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.
I think a major obstacle is storage space. Many small to medium sized volunteer funded instances will have trouble affording it.
