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We're the creators of Lemmy, Ask Us Anything. Starts Monday, 7 Aug, 1500 CEST (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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[–] Lionir@beehaw.org 118 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I'm gonna be asking hard questions, I think, sorry about that. I hope you consider it tough love considering our past interactions.

As an instance admin, I have some questions:

How are you doing? I know there was a lot of pressure when things blew up and it seems to be calming down a bit now.
How is Lemmy doing financially?
Considering past releases and their associated breaking bugs (including 0.18.3), what measures are you taking to help prevent that?
Can we consider the possibility of downgrades being supported?
Why are bugs affecting moderation not release blockers? Does anything block releases?
Are there plans to give instance administrators a voice in shaping the future of Lemmy's development?

As someone who is trying to help with Lemmy's development, I have some other questions:

What do you think are the biggest problems with Lemmy as a software project and what are your priorities for Lemmy?
Considering fairly low amounts of developers contributing to Lemmy, how are you working to help new people get into the project?
Do you worry about the message it sends to potential contributors when the main developers are working on a different project which competes with the former? (Example: Lemmy-ui vs Lemmy-ui-Leptos)
Considering most work is done voluntarily, how are you trying to organize and prioritize work?
Do you believe you are stretching yourself too thin between Lemmy, Lemmy-ui, Lemmy-ui-leptos, Jerboa and Lemmy.ml? If so, what are you doing to help you focus?

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 31 points 2 years ago

Alright second part:

The biggest problem is definitely that there are too many things to do, but only the two of us working on it fulltime. The day only has so many hours and its impossible to keep up with everything. Thats why community contributions are really important.
The amount of contributors is very high compared to a few months ago, its not easy to keep up with all the pull requests. Its going to take some time for processes to adjust to the new scale, and for new contributors to learn how everything works.
This is a question for @dessalines@lemmy.ml
People work on whatever they are passionate about. Generally that works quite well.
I am only working on Lemmy and thats already a lot. So another question for @dessalines@lemmy.ml

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