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A bit tired because my whole family is half sick. Luckily the kids are still okay to go to school.

Otherwise Im excited for this AMA, because I rarely have such direct conversations with users about Lemmy. The discussions on Github are usually quite technical.

Not bad, the swiss chard and spinach I planted recently are sprouting, so that's got me excited.

!reddit@lemmy.world started to ban people based on upvotes

!buyeuropean@feddit.uk movement has motivated people to look around for European alternatives to Reddit

Thx! Really appreciate it, and I'm glad someone thinks its worthwhile work we're doing.

the apps! the app support is really great for Lemmy

Yes this is a major benefit of an open network. Lemmy is a very large project already, so it takes a lot of effort to implement new features, because they have to meet high standards for quality and performance and also work together with all the existing features. A project like Piefed is much smaller and can implement new features more quickly. This allows for more experimentation, and successful features can later be added to Lemmy.

Also users who are not happy with Lemmy for any reason can switch to a different platform while still interacting with those on Lemmy. So if Piefed and Mbin grow that is also a benefit for Lemmy.

1. There is no specific maximum capacity, in theory it can scale indefinitely with horizontal scaling. Also see my reply here regarding scaling.
2. 0.19.10 already includes a fix to remove private messages when a user gets banned which should help a lot. There is an issue about disabling private messages by default, but Im not sure if that will be necessary. Also 1.0 will include a plugin system, so other devs and instance admins can write their own checks. That way spam waves can be fought in a more flexible way, without having to get a change merged into Lemmy and then waiting for a new release.

Unified Push support would be great.

Anyone that wants to scrape Lemmy would have an easier time setting up their own server, federating with everyone, and reading straight from their DB. No web scraping required. Though, web scraping defenses would be useful against general web scrapers/crawlers.

it’s still better to give people the option to go for convenience instead of the “proper” path.

https://phtn.app/signup gives a prepopulated list

show up in people’s “all” feeds multiple times.

Which interface do you use? Crossposts only show up once on the default UI

A way to backup your whole user data and completely restore it on any instance you want. If an instance goes under, it should be possible to keep all subscriptions, all your posts, all your comments, and migrate them to a new instance.

You can already export and import your subscriptions between instances (account settings - import/export)

Posts and comments can't be migrated, but Mastodon doesn't allow it either.

Mastodon currently does not support importing posts or media due to technical limitations, but your archive can be viewed by any software that understands how to parse Activity Streams 2.0 documents.

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/#export

• Tags are work in progress
• Not exactly sure what you mean by "direct messages outside Lemmy", but in version 1.0 they will be compatible with Mastodon and other platforms
• Its a known problem with Mastodon because it only renders Note objects properly, which are meant for short texts less than a paragraph. Lemmy uses Page which is meant for longer text. Some platforms like Wordpress (iirc) have an option to federate even long posts as Note so that it gets rendered fully in Mastodon, but that seems like a bad idea to me. In the end its up to Mastodon how to render different types of federated content on their frontend, so it needs to be fixed by them. Here is an entire discussion about this by developers of different Fediverse platforms (including a Mastodon dev).

!librewolf@lemmy.ml

Communities that go against hegemonic capitalist/imperialist discourse will always get marginalised. Not being able to take down those communities easily like on Reddit is a huge win by itself for Lemmy. The software offers a valuable savehaven for e.g ex r/chapotraphouse, r/genzedong etc.

It seems some people simply need some target to hate on. Hopefully they will learn to accept different opinions when they arent being manipulated by for-profit social media anymore.

I get a chuckle out of the "Tankie Triad" talking point some people keep using. It sounds like a villain organization from a Saturday morning cartoon.

Having distinct communities is a feature, not a bug. If two cities set up their own lemmy instances, say lemmy.sao_luis.br, and lemmy.lagos.ng, they can each have a news community, without them overlapping.

Do a search for metroid, and subscribe to whichever ones you like.

Consolidation isn't always a good thing, communities on different instances will have different styles and trends, and that's a good thing. The benefit of federated social media is just as much in local instances as it is in federation, unique niches are going to have unique comments even if the post is the exact same.

The best data we have on that is probably https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats

Not sure how to get the user retention from that, though