This will take place ~24 hours from now. Feel free to post and upvote questions beforehand in this post, as it will turn into the AMA tomorrow.
This is a chance for any users, admins, or developers to ask anything they’d like to myself, @[email protected] , SleeplessOne , or @[email protected] about Lemmy, its future, and wider issues about the social media landscape today.
Hi again,
1 - Now that there are multiple apps for lemmy, wouldn’t be better to handover jerboa to someone else and focus more on core lemmy?
2 - How was the inception moment for lemmy? When and how did you decided to leave reddit and create something new and how was the first couple months?
Thanks and come to Brazil ;)
Thx!
Jerboa has another major contributor now besides me. But I’d also like to keep a hand in it, simply because I made it and its also the main app I use for lemmy. Besides a few other people, no one has stepped up to get involved with it enough that I’d. Plus I’d eventually like to add it to the
LemmyNetrepo, as it will soon implement all of the features in lemmy-ui, making it an “official” and native app.Reddit has been banning communist / leftist communities for a while, so a lot of us were looking at different reddit alternatives. I found that none of them had a great tech stack, none of them had federation, and a few were unwelcoming to contributions. It made sense to do a “what if reddit, but open source, made in rust, and self-hostable”. It was a great opportunity to teach myself rust also.