Firstly, I just have appreciation for you and nutomic for this amazing platform that you've created. This has become my favorite source of reading discussions and looking at memes. I know it's small, but I love it and want it to succeed. My question is Do you see Lemmy or any other federated platforms reaching the level of audiences that other big Social Media Platforms currently have? Do you want it to grow big like them, or remain as it is, An amazing platform hidden in one corner of the Web?

How do you plan on improving the onboarding/sign-up process for newcomers, especially when they have little to no understanding about the Fediverse?

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

Any plans to make it easier to interact with links to other instances?

The QoL value to automatically open links to other instances inside my current instance would be enormous.

Thanks for the software!

What is your and others Devs opinion on the pre-emptive de-federation of 20k hexbear users by 120k user instance lemmy.world?

Would you think Ranked Choice voting for admins i.e. with the Schulze method - which Debian uses - integrated into the sites would mean that better community supported decisions can be made for both moderation as well as in comments/communities about stuff?

Also: is there a remind me in 2 month of this post option?

Do you aim for Lemmy to become GDPR-compatible in the future ( see https://gdpr-info.eu/ for details)?

Why did you choose Rust for the backend and Inferno for the frontend?

P.S. Thank you for your work!

what new feature would Lemmy have in the 1.0.0? I know it's quite a long way to go, but what is the vision you guys have moving toward it?

Edit: bonus question: what does Chat supposed to do?

Do you have any strong opinions on Richard Stallman? Is it good that he's back at the FSF?

1. What's your favorite dinosaur?

2. The way lemmy instances are organized reminds me of IRC. Was that any part of the inspiration?

One of the major complaints on Reddit was the mod governance structure, with rank dependent on who showed up first. On the roadmap, do you see implementing other ways to govern mods, maybe something like how a lot of video game guilds govern themselves?

Who are you guys if you don't mind me asking. What's your background?

Why Unicode usernames aren't supported yet? After all, a big part of the world's population don't use the Latin alphabet in their native languages.

Why are Lemmy devs so adamantly opposed to a Follow User feature?

This is the one feature that is the biggest hurdle for full federation between Lemmy and all the other fediverse instances. Mastodon (and its forks), Peertube, Pixelfed, and kbin all allow this and federate extremely well together while Lemmy is the worst at federating because its the only one to exclude this feature.

(Please don’t reply with “use kbin if you want to follow users” again as its very dismissive and frustrating)

Here’s my crude write up on a somewhat hacky way this can be implemented as is:

Will lemmy users be able to interact with Mastodon users in future and is there a roadmap for lemmy?

Sorry, no question, only: Thank you for your hard work :)

So, is the official term for AMAs on Lemmy "Ask Us Anything" (AUA)? Or shall we call it "Lemmy Ask U"?