This is an opportunity for any users, server admins, or interested third parties to ask anything they’d like to @[email protected] and I about Lemmy. This includes its development and future, as well as wider issues relevant to the social media landscape today.

  • Salamander@mander.xyz
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    1 year ago

    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 😅

    • Dessalines@lemmy.mlOPM
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      1 year ago

      You just post questions as top-level replies to the stickied thread that day, and we’ll be online to answer them.

    • Dessalines@lemmy.mlOPM
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      1 year ago

      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.

    • socsa@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      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.

    • tonyn@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      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.

      • AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        Ironically enough Reddit was sustainable before they did the redesign, to chase profits, and caused their costs to balloon.

  • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Would you want this promoted on other platforms (basically mastodon), not that that would necessarily garner much more participation?