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.mltype 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.
You can find the full changelog and upgrade instructions here.
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Lemmy is receiving funding from the NLnet foundation!
While that’s certainly a positive thing, I feel obligated ask about the nature of this funding? Does it carry with it any obligations from Lemmy/leverage for NLnet?
To add, the projects nlnet helps fund can give you an indication of how cool a foundation they are: stuff like searx, wireguard, meilisearch, matrix, nextcloud, funkwhale, pixelfed…
ayy nextcloud
We gave them a list of milestones that we are going to work on, and then signed a “Memorandum of Understanding”. We will get the agreed amount of money in the form of a donation once we finish a milestone. There is no company Lemmy or anything like that, we are just doing this as individuals.
i think we need the function “block user” to avoid spams. lol
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:
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.
Thanks! btw I just submitted the request for Albanian translation.
here comes the hackernews crowd o_O
Thanks for the warning.
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.
