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We're the creators of Lemmy, Ask Us Anything. Starts Monday, 7 Aug, 1500 CEST (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is an opportunity for any users, server admins, or interested third parties to ask anything they'd like to @[email protected] 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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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was

On the negative side, for about 2 months, I got an average of 5 hours sleep a night, got 12k+ notifications on github alone, and every day was a new stressful emergency.

But it also helped us expose a bunch of security issues, and help expose and optimize some of our DB issues, so in that sense a reddit-sized stress-test was of long-term benefit to the project.

Luckily things have calmed down now, and we're able to cope with things a bit better.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Congratulations on surviving to this !