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Since you're very upfront with your political preferences, how much did it play a role in motivating you to create Lemmy? Was it a tech experiment first and a political project second?
Do you have some kind of core principle to not let your political preferences excessively interfere with your role as founders, main developers and moderators of Lemmy?
Thanks for your work, it's projects like that keep the ideal of the open internets alive.
Thanks for both of your work on Lemmy, join-lemmy, lemmy-ui and Jerboa.
Do you think 'normies' (people with very very little technical knowledge/experience) will be able to come to a decentralized platform like lemmy? Can a platform be successful long term (especially in niche areas) without that super huge low effort part of the user base?
I think an already established player like Sync or Boost should provide an experience that hand holds newcomers, by leaving little to guess work.
For me its already a huge success that Lemmy got where it is today, with over 50k users. If you had told me that a few months ago, I hardly would have believed it. When I started working on Lemmy, there were a couple dozen active users at most, yet the project didnt die. Instead it kept growing and growing steadily. So I think it will keep growing, and there will be more improvements which make Lemmy more accessible for normal users.
Is there a reason we don't have users ability to block entire instances, or is it difficult to code? (I don't mean to sound ungrateful)
The only thing I think is missing is that we can't group subscriptions to communities. Do you have plans for that in the future? Really happy here regardless.
First off, thank you for this awesome platform and for being my first real experience with contributing to FOSS, I learned quite a bit and I had a lot of of fun! I really hope Rust ends up becoming the new standard in web backends instead of Java with Spring/Springboot.
The only question I have that hasn't already been asked is about the legal side of things:
What are you responsible for as the developers of Lemmy, and what are you responsible for as the owners of a Lemmy instance?
Do you have to take certain measures to keep the platform clean from illegal activities and CP/gore? If so, what has been done?
The same question applies to GDPR rules for Europe.
Thanks for doing this :D
Maybe I'm completely misremembering things, but at some point wasn't there a hotfix to Lemmy that hard-limited how many comments a thread could have? Does anyone know if there's a maximum and if so how many?
Just wondering, cause uh, I could see this one having a lot of comments.
Is it possible to disable the caching of images from other instances onto my server?
Can we get the show context bug fixed? Pretty please? :3 Possibly the most frustrating bug we've ever had.
Also, on crossposted threads can we get the first thread marked as "original post" so it's clear what the originating community is for people that might want to subscribe to it for similar content. The indication of the originating community is a considerable source of subscriptions over on reddit and one of the primary methods that crossposting functions as a growth tool for new communities.
When you started this project did you think it would get where it is now? Was it a sort of daydream thing or a serious belief that it would get this far?
cross_posts field is sorted by published, but I'm not totally positive. In that case it'd just be marking it in the UI in some way.Which are your 3 favorites lemmy instances besides Lemmy.ml?
also thanks for the work you do 
I love all my children equally 🤣 . Haha no I don't want to play favorites. So far every instance has something great about it, and something to add. I also really like startrek.website, and would love to see more topic-based instances. I would love to see a ravelry-type site in lemmy.
Any plans to make it easier to interact with links to other instances?
The QoL value to automatically open links to other instances inside my current instance would be enormous.
What was your first reaction to the massive exodus from Reddit during the blackout? Was it something you were expecting?