Upcoming AMA with Lemmy's creators: Monday, 7 Aug, 1500 CEST
This is an opportunity for any users, server admins, or interested third parties to ask anything they’d like to @nutomic and I about Lemmy. This includes its development and future, as well as wider issues relevant to the social media landscape today.
I have a suggestion about lemmy. Could there be a way where Lemmy can check for community names across instances to help reduce multiple communities of the same name? For example, say someone wants to create a Linux community on their instance and during the creation Lemmy searches an index of community names and finds one already named that name, it would then recommend the existing community which already exists be used or a new community name be made.
My theory is to help reduce the multiple communities of the same name posting the same article numerous times on the all feed.
Hello devs of Lemmy! I was wondering if you’re going to improve the privacy of Lemmy as a whole, and make sure that it don’t violate the GDPR. For instance what happens when a user deletes their account? The GDPR gives the right to the users to be forgotten (don’t mistake this with the right to erase everything, a forum is allowed to have the data that the user has written as long as it’s not sensitive, including name etc). I’ve seen posts where users are reporting that their account is not deleted when pressing the delete account button in the settings page. There is very little information about this.
The point being that the user name should be erased when someone deletes their account.
Would be great to have answers about this. And if you can also anwser some general about what you’re going to improve privacy going forward.
Have you managed to get enough funding so working on lemmy is a realistic “career” for you ? Also, are there a couple features that the community asked for but you didn’t think about or even want initially?
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.
Hey every lemmy. This post on world, lemmy.world/post/2561210, maps to this post on my instance: boulder.ly/post/59184. When I click the links on world I get through to the linked posts. But when I click them on my site, I get this error.
This seems to be due to the original poster having used relative links which will only work on the instance they were posted. They could have posted fixed links which would have brought me to the content but pulled me out of my instance and asked me to log into another to participate in the conversation.
Both options seem to break the spirit of federation. Why weren’t some kind of unique IDs common to all instances used so that relative links would work across all instances? Can we correct this going forward? Similarly, can we perform URL rewrites for fixed links on other instances? Thanks!
I have a question which will become really important as the platform grows.
It’s spelled GDPR.
Some changes would be needed perhaps to not store sensitive personal information in databases and so on, but I’m not sure. Would be interesting to get @nutomic thoughts on this.
We need to make sure the network can’t be shut down for gdpr reasons.
What is the solution or plan to address that there is no content? I don’t see much here so I go between this and Kbin and still reddit. This community is 99% less toxic than reddit and they are heading in a bad direction in the last years/s. But I want a viable alternative. Lots of content here is reposted over and over in different communities so the % of original content is very low if you consider that.
I’m really not experiencing that— because there isn’t The Algorithm feeding you Content™, lemmy is more reliant on you subscribing to specific communities and for them to be active. Personally, I’m subscribed to a lot of communities, but, likewise, I get a lot of active content. Im able to, in a satisfactory way, replicate the experience that I had on reddit— minus 99.9% of the toxicity and hostility, of course.
You may simply find that it’s a mater of fine-tuning your experience here, although the platform itself is still improving. I remember Reddit in its early days, and it, too, took time to improve.
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