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

    • socsa@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      I think there are some legitimate concerns here though. Not necessarily of the ideology the primary devs, but the way it manifests with a soft ban on certain topics (Ukraine), and how they seem fine letting lemmygrad trolls shut down basically every other world news thread. And I’m not talking about people having different opinions here - I’m talking about users who openly state that they seek to disrupt discussion in order to deny the information space to non-ML ideas entirely. I have reported a number of these comments which are blatantly and openly stating that they only intend to troll and disrupt and nothing ever happens. Yet if you take a slightly wrong tone in responding to the sel-avowed trolls they are quite quick with the ban hammer.

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    1 year ago

    Not sure if you saw the news, but the BBC are experimenting with their own Mastadon instance. They can probably afford to host video.

    I understand that many instances are run by volunteers and hobbyists. But that doesn’t mean that a business such as BBC couldn’t come and host their own instance.

    And I don’t think I implied that you wanted to ban video. I just want to see video integrated natively into Lemmy so that instances can turn it on or off. A Youtube link is no good. I don’t like being rickrolled.

    • CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      I think a major obstacle is storage space. Many small to medium sized volunteer funded instances will have trouble affording it.

  • Salamander@mander.xyz
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    1 year ago

    Really cool! I’m excited to learn more about you and the project!

    What’s the format? Should we submit questions beforehand, or will you process questions that arrive at the start time? I’ve never participated in an AMA 😅

    • Dessalines@lemmy.mlOPM
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      1 year ago

      You just post questions as top-level replies to the stickied thread that day, and we’ll be online to answer them.