what new feature would Lemmy have in the 1.0.0? I know it's quite a long way to go, but what is the vision you guys have moving toward it?
Edit: bonus question: what does Chat supposed to do?
this post was submitted on 06 Aug 2023
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1.0 is not about features, but stability. It means there wont be any breaking changes to the api or federation for a while, until 2.0. In fact we were thinking to make some breaking changes and then release 1.0 later this year. But then the Reddit migration happened and those plans had to be scrapped.
Chat simply orders the comments in a different way, newest first without any nesting.
Why did you choose Rust for the backend and Inferno for the frontend?
P.S. Thank you for your work!
Performance.
For web services, check out https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/
For front-end, check out https://github.com/krausest/js-framework-benchmark
At the time of making lemmy, actix (for back end), and inferno, were two of the highest-performing in their areas.
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Why are Lemmy devs so adamantly opposed to a Follow User feature?
This is the one feature that is the biggest hurdle for full federation between Lemmy and all the other fediverse instances. Mastodon (and its forks), Peertube, Pixelfed, and kbin all allow this and federate extremely well together while Lemmy is the worst at federating because its the only one to exclude this feature.
(Please don’t reply with “use kbin if you want to follow users” again as its very dismissive and frustrating)
Here’s my crude write up on a somewhat hacky way this can be implemented as is:
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When creating an account the backend can automatically create a community thats the same as your username. make you the mod, and enable mod only posts to the community by default. On the update to the new version with the Follow User Feature a script can run to auto create communities with the names of users.
The script can also change any usernames that exist with the same name as a current community and add a U at the end of the user (an extremely small amount of users would be affected and usernames aren’t as important as preserving community names/urls)
Then we just need to follow the community of the same name as the user to follow them. The way mastodon already federates with Lemmy currently would allow you to recurve updates whenever the user posts to their own community since only they (and assigned mods) can post to their community.
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What's your favorite dinosaur?
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The way lemmy instances are organized reminds me of IRC. Was that any part of the inspiration?
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One of the major complaints on Reddit was the mod governance structure, with rank dependent on who showed up first. On the roadmap, do you see implementing other ways to govern mods, maybe something like how a lot of video game guilds govern themselves?
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Do you have any strong opinions on Richard Stallman? Is it good that he's back at the FSF?
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Do you aim for Lemmy to become GDPR-compatible in the future ( see https://gdpr-info.eu/ for details)?
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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.
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So, is the official term for AMAs on Lemmy "Ask Us Anything" (AUA)? Or shall we call it "Lemmy Ask U"?
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Who are you guys if you don't mind me asking. What's your background?
Im from Germany and studied computer science. Was always very interested in open source and decentralized software. Worked in a couple different companies, but was never happy making profit for someone else. Luckily I found Lemmy shortly after Dessalines started the project, and put a lot of work into it. Then we found the NLnet funding which allowed us to work fulltime on the project.
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Will lemmy users be able to interact with Mastodon users in future and is there a roadmap for lemmy?
They already can, outside of lemmy users not being able to follow mastodon users, since we're a link-aggregator, not a micro-blogging platform.
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Will an AMA comment sort type be added? Would be convenient to scroll by new replies from OP so we can easily keep up with AMAs
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How much experience did you have with Rust when you started making Lemmy? What programming languages did you use before?
Just a little, on a few side projects. But lemmy was the one that I used to teach myself rust. Before I was mainly a Java developer.
Having a good idea + learning the new thing to program it in, is one of the best motivators for me, as I'm sure it is for a lot of devs.
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Why is lemmy licensed under the AGPL3? What prompted you to take that decision?
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Thoughts on a GPL4?
Many examples indicate an even stronger license is needed, I will list a few
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The current RedHat debacle
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MuseScore's closed source Musehub (after being acquired by Ultimatw Guitar)
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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.
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