Will the source code ever move off of proprietary Microsoft GitHub where users need to have an account to contribute & search code—or certain users are blocked due to US sanctions? If the idea is wanting to stand up against centralized US-corpo-controlled social media for forums, why use that US-megacorpate-controlled code forge / social media platform?

Will private messages ever be displayed in a threaded or grouped manner?

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but the current web interface is just a reverse chronological list of all sent and received messages. This can be confusing to follow if one is messaging multiple users over an extended period of time. I think the ability to group messages by user would be useful.

Sorry for taking up all the space :) But please skip the ones you wish.

1. How old are you guys? Can be a range if you want e.g. 10-15, 15-20 :)
2. Do you know each other IRL?
3. Which region do you live in? Like America, Europe, Asia etc.
4. If Lemmy had 100 million users, would you still try to remain anonymous?
5. Is there an instance admin you hate but can't say?
6. What percentage of users should ideally be in the largest Lemmy instance do you believe?
7. If you had the chance to change the name Lemmy, would you?

Looking forward to it. Hopefully people will stay respectful.

How do you feel about extreme right-wing instances like the late Wolfballs using Lemmy to promote and spread hate?

I post a fair amount of video edits. I've had quite a few people say that video playback is far from ideal for not just Lemmy, but the Fediverse as a whole. Is this mostly a 3rd party app thing, or a backend issue? I haven't had much issue myself, but enough people have mentioned it that there is likely an issue somewhere down the line.

Seeing my PR here made me feel good. 3 months and ~60 commits for only one lil field was too much 😅

It's very nice and reassuring that all the commits are audited subtly though.

Any words for Zuck and Threads?

Edit: on a more serious note, has Meta reached out to the Lemmy developers at all?

What is currently in the works to help admins locate spammers and problematic users on their instance?

Right now I believe it relies heavily on users reporting and admins looking through a users history however I think that is really inefficient.

Are there any better visualization tools that could be made to aid admins?

In your opinion, what are the top strengths and weaknesses of Lemmy at this point in time?

First of thanks a lot for the effort that you put into creating lemmy. You have created a really friendly and welcoming place!

I have a question regarding licenses. When you started developing lemmy, what were the reasons for your choice of the AGPL? As you are marxist-leninists, did you also look into other licenses like the the Anti-Capitalist Software License?

Hi again,

1 - Now that there are multiple apps for lemmy, wouldn't be better to handover jerboa to someone else and focus more on core lemmy?

2 - How was the inception moment for lemmy? When and how did you decided to leave reddit and create something new and how was the first couple months?

Thanks and come to Brazil ;)

A long time ago, @Dessalines@lemmy.ml made Jerboa as an Android Native client for Lemmy as an alternative to Boost for Reddit. How happy are you that the OG Boost developer came and made a Lemmy client?

Where is the best place to propose new features for Lemmy?

Edit: And as potential follow-up, where is the best place on Lemmy to propose new features for Lemmy? (Not every Lemmy user has or wants a GitHub account)

Since I read a few comments here... What is your oppinion on more democratic platforms? I mean something like electing moderators. (Or dropping them in a democratic process.) Or voting for other things in a community.

(This is more a hypothetical question. I guess with the architecture as is, it can easily be exploited. And there is no way to implement this properly without severe changes and consequences.)

This is for all Lemmy devs:

Talk a bit about yourself, likes and dislikes.

Musical taste, movies, whatever, just willing to know a lil more about you as persons

Is there any new p2p/decentral technology that is trying to advance beyond federation?

It would be cool to have a generic framework to make web resources that are inherently decentralized without the need for sponsor and hosting.

Like IPFS but as a social site. Everyone helps partially host content in exchange for access to all the content.

Will there be flairs?

As developers, what can we do (or not do) to best support Lemmy’s vision and goals right now?

When and how are you going to address the thousands of open issues in the Github repository, that contain UI bugs, missing error messages (something looks as if it was sent for example if you send a direct message with too many characters, but actually isn't), backend issues and other assorted bugs?