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Thanks for the software!
What is your and others Devs opinion on the pre-emptive de-federation of 20k hexbear users by 120k user instance lemmy.world?
Would you think Ranked Choice voting for admins i.e. with the Schulze method - which Debian 
uses - integrated into the sites would mean that better community supported decisions can be made for both moderation as well as in comments/communities about stuff?
How's progress on OAuth2? I know previously you (understandably) said it wasn't a priority this early, but is it on the greater roadmap?
For me the whole point of fediverse is not depending on a single party for your socials/subs. But the current climate in each instance forces users to have accounts in multiple instances.
As a Lemmy user I believe account migration should be a default Lemmy feature which enables true federation for end users. Any plans for this feature in the near future?
Is there any coordination with The other fediverse projects (mainly mastodon) and mastodon client developpers to enhance the interoperability with each other.
for instance being able to flawlessly post to lemmy and get notified about replies to your mastodon instance in a more convenient and user friendly way. where mastodon and its clients recognizes that a reply is comming from a lemmy server and displays it in a threaded way.
With some other projects yes, but Mastodon not really. They often implement things in weird or nonstandard ways, and expect everyone else to deal with it. They even wrote an entire implementation for groups which is intentionally incompatible with Lemmy or other existing implementations. At least they had the good sense not to merge that.
Why Unicode usernames aren't supported yet? After all, a big part of the world's population don't use the Latin alphabet in their native languages.
Now that right there is a very good idea. Thank you. Going to be a busy day for you guys.
Is there a plan to improve search and federating communities between instances? My biggest hurdle joining and using Lemmy was without a doubt the search functionality and subscribing to a community on my own instance, it was severely off-putting. Let me walk you through it: you find a community you like, say !vinyl@sopuli.xyz. You paste it into the search of your instance, as instructed. It immediately tells you "No results". If you don't click off, sometimes it changes it's mind within a few seconds. Sometimes it never loads. You try manually creating the URL by going to example.com/c/vinyl@sopuli.xyz but it gives you an error. If you're lucky it works the next day, if you're not then I don't actually know the next step. Not to mention the lack of feedback on subscribing to communities. I have "subscribed" to communities before then realised a week later that despite appearing in my list of subs it didn't actually work and I have to redo, the only feedback you get is "pending". This is the #1 issue that stops me from recommending Lemmy, or at least smaller instances that haven't federated with much yet. Is the search a priority?
I know you've been asked about splitting NSFW already, but is there any chance of a specific NSFL tag or a non-NSFW spoiler/blur tag? Gore and nudity are such different topics they really don't deserve to be under the same banner.
Are proper inline previews something on the roadmap? What I mean is items like YouTube videos, Streamable links, and just about anything that isn't a Lemmy image is not expandable and requires leaving the website. It's one of my most missed features from old Reddit with RES.
I read as much of the thread as possible, so hopefully these are new questions. Hope I didn't come across too negative here as I've been enjoying my time overall and I know y'all have been swamped these months and never expected this popularity.
I have heard some respectable communities, namely r/AskHistorians, express hesitance at coming to Lemmy in part over fears of appearing biased due to the overt political stance of Lemmy's creators. In other words, it's hard to be a neutral body in affiliation with anything that has an overt political stance.
I wonder what the devs of Lemmy think of this hesitance. Is it unreasonable and itself biased? Or do you see any potential for finding a way to facilitate a platform that would allow for a more neutral space?
Doesn't the federation part fix that? Couldn't they host their own server or be on a more neutral instance? or am I missing the point?
They can definitely run their own server, and we'd even help them get set up. There's no such thing as a neutral space, but people can set up an instance if they'd like to moderate / control it how they see fit.
Thoughts on a GPL4?
Many examples indicate an even stronger license is needed, I will list a few
The current RedHat debacle
MuseScore's closed source Musehub (after being acquired by Ultimatw Guitar)
Google commiting copyright infringement by combining free (as in freedom) software with code under Apache license for Android
We clearly need a stronger, more all encompassing license.
I'm not too familiar with it, but I'm always open to moving to stronger copyleft-licenses, if the AGPLv3 is proving inadequate.
Maybe I couldn't find it somewhere online, but is there a structured development roadmap for features you plan to implement? If not, what are the top priorities going forward? What are your long term goals with the project?
We don't have a written roadmap, but my current goals are:
I don't really have any questions at the moment, just passing by to thank you for making this great product/service.
After the Reddit fiasco I felt like my internet life would be empty, then I saw a thread on /r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH about they joining here and making an instance, so that's why I'm here now (not with them at the moment).
Then I started to be more active here than on Reddit until today which my Reddit account is basically forgotten.
I have read many of your answers and I can't wait until that "best" sorting comes out!
I wasn't very active in the biggest communities of Reddit because my likings which are a bit smaller (I don't think niche) than the big masses.
Thanks again for your hard work!
Which instant messenger do you use and recommend the most for general use? I read Dessalines essay about why Signal is bad, from these options SimpleX looks best to me. Thoughts?
I use Telegram. The company is based outside the EU/US, so its unlikely that it would give any data to my government.
What are the challenges posed by moderation (and admin in general) that you didn't think of when launching the first instance?
(and: How can things get improved, how can people help?)
A few questions:
Why isn't there a feature to allow individuals to block whole instances?
How much experience did you have with Rust when you started making Lemmy? What programming languages did you use before?
Do you have any strong opinions on Richard Stallman? Is it good that he's back at the FSF?
Something that trips me up a bit about federation and instances is the overlap of identical communities from different instances.
So for example, I'm an atheist, but it's be years since that was a part of my identity that moved me to care about atheist memes or patting myself on the back for not being religious, which (sorry guys), is what I feel like happens in those communities. So I get them out of my feed by blocking them the way I block plenty of other communities I'm not interested in. In Apollo I was spoiled by the 'hide subreddit' feature that I don't believe existed in Reddit itself, but which was crucial to my enjoyment of that particular app. But since there are multiple instances hosting a version of any given community, I must've blocked at least three 'atheist' and two or three 'atheistmemes' communities, which look the same to me, but are hosted on different instances.
Is my All feed destined to continue having different instance versions of all the topics I don't want to see, no matter how many times I block them, as long as there are more and more instances hosting those communities? I don't want to sound unimpressed by this new technology or ungrateful for the amazing service you all are building, but this feels like either a pretty big flaw in the federated user experience or a pretty big gap in my knowledge of how to work the platform. I'm entirely receptive to the idea I may just be doing something wrong.
Just curious. Thank you for everything you do.
Any thoughts on overhauling cross-posting, to allow more interaction with the source interaction?
As far as I'm aware: currently when you cross-post, only the recipient instance gets all interactions (comments, upvotes), instead of duplicating or having the origin solely receive those.
The current implementation hampers the growth of smaller instances when reposting something to a bigger one. Discoverability is still there due to seeing from which instance the post originates from, but that's arguably not enough.
Is there anything happening in the Fediverse that makes you concerned for its future?
The whole philosophy of it is to give power back to the users and not be kept in a box, but do you think the current mindset of most people using the typical social media platforms will bring bad habits here and squander what the Fediverse stands for? This is more of a concern of mine, but I'm new here
Who are you guys if you don't mind me asking. What's your background?