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.

  • P4ulin_KbanaEnglish
    3·
    3 days ago

    • Will there be any way to block users from certain instances to hide their comments?

    • What are the plans the improve discoverability?

    I’m quite discontent with how few options there is to explore Lemmy. And it doesn’t helps that the top posts are always related to politics.

    • Will there be any type of word filtering?

    We should have community unifying.

    • I know people have already said it many times, but the joining experience could be simpler and less confusing.
    • nutomic@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
      9·
      3 days ago

      Will there be any way to block users from certain instances to hide their comments?

      I dont think theres an issue for this yet, feel free to open one. It could be a checkbox for “Blocked Instances” setting, eg “Also block users”.

      What are the plans the improve discoverability?

      There is an issue for easier discovery of federated communities which is part of our roadmap. Piefed recently implemented a similar feature which we will take inspiration from. It also helps if you block communities that you dont want to see. Are there any other ideas you are thinking of?

      Will there be any type of word filtering?

      This is work in progress.

    • can@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      I’m quite discontent with how few options there is to explore Lemmy. And it doesn’t helps that the top posts are always related to politics.

      Make sure to sort by Scaled sometimes too.

    • P4ulin_KbanaEnglish
      66·
      3 days ago
      unpopular opinion

      Lemmy should have some sort of recommendation alhorithm.