In the last weeks Lemmy has seen a lot of growth, with thousands of new users. To welcome them we are holding this AMA to answer questions from the community. You can ask about the beginnings of Lemmy, how we see the future of Lemmy, our long-term goals, what makes Lemmy different from Reddit, about internet and social media in general, as well as personal questions.
We'd also like to hear your overall feedback on Lemmy: What are its greatest strengths and weaknesses? How would you improve it? What's something you wish it had? What can our community do to ensure that we keep pulling users away from US tech companies, and into the fediverse?
Lemmy and Reddit may look similar at first glance, but there is a major difference. While Reddit is a corporation with thousands of employees and billionaire investors, Lemmy is nothing but an open source project run by volunteers. It was started in 2019 by @dessalines and @nutomic, turning into a fulltime job since 2020. For our income we are dependent on your donations, so please contribute if you can. We'd like to be able to add more full-time contributors to our co-op.
We will start answering questions from tomorrow (Wednesday). Besides @dessalines and @nutomic, other Lemmy contributors may also chime in to answer questions:
Here are our previous AMAs for those interested.
Granted, but that doesn't answer the question at hand.
No, it is on voyager too. I built and installed it last night.
Maybe it's this bug? https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/2701127
From that thread
Yeah, voyager does not have any ads or tracking or anything. It's truly privacy first. In fact the only "analytics" I get are from Apple App Store and Google Play Store download counts etc which I can't turn off. But if you use F-droid I have literally 0 usage information even crashes :)
Also Voyager has reproducible builds which means you don't have to trust me. You can verify that the APK was built from a specific release of the source code!