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Have you considered a feature like “sibling community”?

What I mean is, for example, car community on server 1 marks itself as a sibling community to a car community on server 2. Similarly server 2 marks itself as a sibling community to server 1, ie it is two-way.

When communities have been linked bi-directionally, any post and comment are shared between the two sibling communities.

This would allow bigger communities to form out of smaller communities, thereby preventing discussions from being fragmented and showing the true size of Lemmy, across servers.

1. Are you proud/happy/satisfied how Lemmy progresses and its current status?
2. Does it make sense to spend your time to develop client apps when there are so many other already (including open source)
3. What are your ambitions/goals/hopes for Lemmy in one year from now?
4. What do you see as the biggest issue for Lemmy (as a platform) which must be addressed?

Ps: thank you for your work!

Is there a reason we don't have users ability to block entire instances, or is it difficult to code? (I don't mean to sound ungrateful)

The only thing I think is missing is that we can't group subscriptions to communities. Do you have plans for that in the future? Really happy here regardless.

1. Can we get the show context bug fixed? Pretty please? :3 Possibly the most frustrating bug we've ever had.

2. Also, on crossposted threads can we get the first thread marked as "original post" so it's clear what the originating community is for people that might want to subscribe to it for similar content. The indication of the originating community is a considerable source of subscriptions over on reddit and one of the primary methods that crossposting functions as a growth tool for new communities.

3. When you started this project did you think it would get where it is now? Was it a sort of daydream thing or a serious belief that it would get this far?

First off, thank you for this awesome platform and for being my first real experience with contributing to FOSS, I learned quite a bit and I had a lot of of fun! I really hope Rust ends up becoming the new standard in web backends instead of Java with Spring/Springboot.

The only question I have that hasn't already been asked is about the legal side of things:

What are you responsible for as the developers of Lemmy, and what are you responsible for as the owners of a Lemmy instance?

Do you have to take certain measures to keep the platform clean from illegal activities and CP/gore? If so, what has been done?

The same question applies to GDPR rules for Europe.

Thanks for doing this :D

Which are your 3 favorites lemmy instances besides Lemmy.ml?

also thanks for the work you do

1. What is the best Linux distribution?
2. Favorite instance outside of lemmy.ml?
3. Best and worst Lemmy client?

Opinions on hexbear finally federating?

Is it possible to disable the caching of images from other instances onto my server?

Maybe I'm completely misremembering things, but at some point wasn't there a hotfix to Lemmy that hard-limited how many comments a thread could have? Does anyone know if there's a maximum and if so how many?

Just wondering, cause uh, I could see this one having a lot of comments.

What are your opinions on third party apps for Lemmy using ads on their free version?

Any plans to make it easier to interact with links to other instances?

The QoL value to automatically open links to other instances inside my current instance would be enormous.

Thank you a lot for building such an awesome platform! Here are my questions:

How did you get into communism? Were there any events that had an influence on you becoming communists and what personally motivates you to keep working on lemmy even though you could earn much more as developers working on proprietary software?

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?

Also: is there a remind me in 2 month of this post option?

What was your first reaction to the massive exodus from Reddit during the blackout? Was it something you were expecting?

How do you plan on improving the onboarding/sign-up process for newcomers, especially when they have little to no understanding about the Fediverse?