This is an opportunity for any users, server admins, or interested third parties to ask anything they’d like to @nutomic@lemmy.ml 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.

Original Announcement thread

  • Metal Zealot@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Any regrets during your time working on Lemmy? Like implementing a feature and then later on thinking “Shit. This sucks, but I can’t remove it now or it will fuck up everything later.”

    • Dessalines@lemmy.mlOPM
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      1 year ago

      Probably infinite scrolling in jerboa, as its a very harmful psychogical anti-pattern. Now that I’ve added it, people have been extremely resistent to my insistence that it should be done away with.

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        1 year ago

        After it being the standard for social media for so long, it’s tiresome. Same mentality as those Clicker games

      • wiki_me@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        I mean there are people who probably will not develop an addiction because of this (due to stuff like good self regulation skills), a lot of things can be addictive but also be good (like social media), maybe it is better to add features that help regulate behavior like a notification after a amount of time has passed set by the user (or just suggesting a link to a open source app that does this).