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.
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!!
Hopefully PieFed will do that one day. In the mean time they combine comments from all posts with the same link, which is half way there.
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/38733273?scrollToComments=true
That’s great! Well I wish it would be possible to have one of these “actor” that “always existed” and includes all communities of the same literal name, say “/c/books”
But it’s a good start
The big centralized community can be prevented by by having naturally posting to /c/books on their own random server and being as likely to be seen there as any other community
But those books communities on their random servers still have to be added to the feeds. At some point, it might look like Mastodon with everyone posting to a hashtag, but then what happens when a malicious actor poets to that hashtag?
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?
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
Yes, exactly, because I’m never going to visit every /book times the numbers of server on the fediverse and no one else ever will.
It HAS to all be in /c/books or else tgere will be only one server with /c/books that has over 80% of the user., defeating the point of decentralisation