Let’s start with the biggest news first: Lemmy is receiving funding from the NLnet foundation! The funding is for a total amount of 45.000 €, which will allow /u/dessalines and me (/u/nutomic ) to work on Lemmy full-time for at least half a year.
We have created various milestones for the work we are planning to do. Most of them are about getting ActivityPub federation ready for production. In addition, we will work on:
better accessibility
private communities and instances
reworking search
creating a joinlemmy.ml type site
the option to block other users or communities
The details of the milestones will be posted on our github issue tracker soon.
We’re very excited about this opportunity, and can’t wait to finish federation.
In other news, we have just released Lemmy v0.7.0. Most importantly, this update switches to Pict-rs for image hosting, due to various performance-related issues with Pictshare. Pict-rs was coded from scratch in Rust by the amazing @asonix, who also created the ActivityPub library for Rust. We can’t thank him enough for all the work he is doing for Lemmy!
We’d also like to thank the following people for their contributions:
@iav for their work in building arm compatible rust docker images and builds.
@ernestwisniewski and @bytesnake for code contributions.
Many others for contributing translations via the Lemmy weblate.
Our Patreon and Liberapay supporters who help us devote more time to Lemmy (We’re still very far from these being able to sustain two developers)
Everyone else who contributes to Lemmy, be it by coding, hosting instances or just using it and spreading the word!
Other than that, since v0.6.0 in January we’ve closed over 100 issues, fixed tons of bugs and added many new features.
One thing i would love to see is video hosting but not be shitty like v.redd.it assuming it’s possible. That was one of the most terribly implemented features reddit ever added. I’d put it up there with ‘reddit gold’.
Why didn’t you already register joinlemmy.ml? Anyhow, I have squatted it and would transfer it for the price I payed. Just reach out to me and we figure out how you can get it as fast as possible.
Well, that was a waste of money. My registrar charged me 9.90 € for it. Not sure if it can be converted to a free one on freenom. If it can you can have it for free.
I’d like to see the ability to load custom themes/layouts. IT would be cool to see a more dynamic site that you could customize to your tastes in design and content.
I’ve been in the matrix chat for a month or so and love the project. I’m glad to see that it’s gaining a lot of momentum due to the funding and HN exposure. Just became a patron on Patreon, and good luck with the dev work!
Thank you for all the work you’re doing! I hope to see Lemmy as a place open to all that gets better than the crap that Reddit is becoming. I’ll make sure I contribute as much as I can!
Congratulations! I love this social network and the users who are part of it! I will try to contribute by translating the social network into my native language, Basque, so that more people can use it :)
i think we need the function “block user” to avoid spams. lol
And we need SEO compatible permalinks. :)
Awesome work! I think this script would be better if we able to report the messages, topics and communities.
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One thing i would love to see is video hosting but not be shitty like v.redd.it assuming it’s possible. That was one of the most terribly implemented features reddit ever added. I’d put it up there with ‘reddit gold’.
the peertube project tries to solve that. however, it lacks good moderation like lemmy has, so there are many fascists and conspiracy theorists
We do use an embed host for post links too called iframely, if that gets support for peertube, it seems like the best way to do videos.
Is there any way that I can contribute to translating the website to my native language? It’s a small language but I feel like every little bit helps.
https://weblate.yerbamate.dev/
Thanks! btw I just submitted the request for Albanian translation.
Thank you :)
There’s a link to the translation system in the documentation somewhere.
Why didn’t you already register
joinlemmy.ml? Anyhow, I have squatted it and would transfer it for the price I payed. Just reach out to me and we figure out how you can get it as fast as possible.deleted by creator
I am aware of that. I know how domains work.
Thanks, but we are actually planning to go with join.lemmy.ml. Also, .ml domains are available for free.
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Well, that was a waste of money. My registrar charged me 9.90 € for it. Not sure if it can be converted to a free one on freenom. If it can you can have it for free.
Maybe you could copy the ruqqus design. It appears to look good and is, of course, open source.
I’d like to see the ability to load custom themes/layouts. IT would be cool to see a more dynamic site that you could customize to your tastes in design and content.
You can change your theme in your user settings on the top right. We also have a theming guide here.
oh rad didn’t know about the guide. thanks!
np :smiling face with sunglasses:
Contributions are always welcome ;)
Nearly at double that in 2 weeks
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👁
I’ve been in the matrix chat for a month or so and love the project. I’m glad to see that it’s gaining a lot of momentum due to the funding and HN exposure. Just became a patron on Patreon, and good luck with the dev work!
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cool, grats!
Thank you for all the work you’re doing! I hope to see Lemmy as a place open to all that gets better than the crap that Reddit is becoming. I’ll make sure I contribute as much as I can!
Thanks :thumbs up:
Congratulations! I love this social network and the users who are part of it! I will try to contribute by translating the social network into my native language, Basque, so that more people can use it :)
I am pleased to announce that I have 100% translated all the terms into Basque! :D
Woohoo! Thanks!
Eskerri kasko! (es casi lo unico que sé en euskera)
Ez horregatik! (no hay de que!) :smiling face with smiling eyes:
kaixo :hugging face:
Kaixo! Zer moduz?
ondo… egun on! (and then my Basque ends :) )
not bad at all :smiling face with sunglasses: