This is a chance for any users, admins, or developers to ask anything they'd like to myself, @nutomic@lemmy.ml , SleeplessOne , or @phiresky@lemmy.world about Lemmy, its future, and wider issues about the social media landscape today.
NLNet Funding
First of all some good news: We are currently applying for new funding from NLnet and have reached the second round. If it gets approved then @phiresky@lemmy.world and SleeplessOne will work on the paid milestones, while @dessalines and @nutomic will keep being funded by direct user donations. This will increase the number of paid Lemmy developers to four and allow for faster development.
You can see a preliminary draft for the milestones. This can give you a general idea what the development priorities will be over the next year or so. However the exact details will almost certainly change until the application process is finalized.
Development Update
@ismailkarsli added a community statistic for number of local subscribers.
@jmcharter added a view for denied Registration Applications.
@dullbananas made various improvements to database code, like batching insertions for better performance, SQL comments and support for backwards pagination.
@SleeplessOne1917 made a change that besides admins also allows community moderators to see who voted on posts. Additionally he made improvements to the 2FA modal and made it more obvious when a community is locked.
@nutomic completed the implementation of local only communities, which don't federate and can only be seen by authenticated users. Additionally he finished the image proxy feature, which user IPs being exposed to external servers via embedded images. Admin purges of content are now federated. He also made a change which reduces the problem of instances being marked as dead.
@dessalines has been adding moderation abilities to Jerboa, including bans, locks, removes, featured posts, and vote viewing.
In other news there will soon be a security audit of the Lemmy federation code, thanks to Radically Open Security and NLnet.
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I would hope we aren't going to start kicking people out because of there political views.
Perhaps you are not aware that some instances already do, and that some—for example hexbear & lemmygrad—have done so since their inception.
Conservativism isn't a political view, it's a crime against humanity. They have exactly one ""legitimate"" claim (lower taxes) and the rest is shit like "lets make child marriage legal", "lets murder people for crossing the border", "lets dogwhistle neofascist hatred" and "lets roll back every human right known to man" and that's before you get into the MAGA shit which is every form of outright nazism stuffed into a trenchcoat.
Instances with conservative /c are all full of notoriously toxic and anticommunist users who go around making the federation way shittier.
This is so ridiculous I dont even know where to start.
You've probably better things to do than to go into this, but maybe someone else here can showcase the flaws in my reasoning. All I have to go off of is my own personal experiences and what I see is a direct translation of right-acceptance converting directly into right-wing toxicity.
Just to be clear, being conservative is very much a political view. No one is making you agree with there views and no one is making you spend time on conservative communities.
Additionally you are complaining about them being anti communist but you are very anti conservative. Maybe we should just keep those two ideas in there respective communities. I certainly don't care for people posting about communism or conservative ideas on random posts.
Well that's just the thing, they don't keep to themselves. I've no problem with people having different views to my own. That changes when they start harassing anyone who expresses views distasteful to them. Maybe that's justifiable in cases where the "other side" are actual nazis, but it's a lot harder to make that same justification when it's the other way around. What I care most about is freedom of speech which doesn't just turn into "oops all nazism" because you can get that nearly everywhere these days and i'm already starting to see traces of that taking root here too, at least on some instances.