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We're the creators of Lemmy, Ask Us Anything. Starts Monday, 7 Aug, 1500 CEST (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by dessalines@lemmy.ml to c/announcements@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] Gxost@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

When the possibility to block instances will be implemented?

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[–] billbasher@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If an individual wants to help develop this, how would they go about doing so?

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

Go to Github, look through open issues and find something you are interested to work on. Basically like any other open source project. Then make a pull request with your changes. You can ask for help from other devs in Matrix or directly on Github.

[–] owiseedoubleyou@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What inspired you to create Lemmy?

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[–] julianwgs@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thanks for creating Lemmy! I like it a lot :) Do you have any ideas/plans on a privacy and user focused algorithmic view? If Lemmy wants to be big, I think we need something like this.

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[–] h3ndrik@feddit.de 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's your oppinion on lemmy being used by a few hundreds of people for quite some time and then recently exploding overnight with new instances and tens of thousands of new users. That certeinly changed some things...

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

It was definitely a difficult struggle. I've elaborated below on how wrecked I was for ~ 2 months.

[–] linucs@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know about your decision regarding Threads but what are your thoughts on the blog post from the Mastodon CEO? https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/what-to-know-about-threads/ especially the address to the EEE concern

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[–] AlbigensianGhoul@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 year ago

First of all, thanks for the great work!

How's the onboarding of the new contributors going? I assume suddenly getting a huge influx of eager contributors might create a lot of fun "problems" that software developers don't usually get in their day jobs.

Related to that, besides the contributor docs on join-lemmy, is there any recommended reading before getting down to work on starting to contribute (already made or in the works)? I've been looking into helping out and getting better at Rust in the process.

[–] starman@programming.dev 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A bit technical question: how do you manage to build performant comment trees on frontend?

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/blob/main/src/shared/utils/app/build-comments-tree.ts

The scaling / actual trees are done using postgres ltree in the back-end, with a path field representing a list of parent comment ids.

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