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Official announcements from the Lemmy project. Subscribe to this community or add it to your RSS reader in order to be notified about new releases and important updates.

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

Note: This will be the thread tmrw, so you can use this thread to ask and vote on questions beforehand.

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[–] robert235@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Where did the Lemmy name originated from? How long was the development of Lemmy?

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

The name is explained in the docs. We worked in Lemmy fulltime for over three years now (and around one year before that in our free time).

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

https://github.com/lemmynet/lemmy#whys-it-called-lemmy

The first commit was in Feb, 2019, and of course we're still going!