Lemmy Lead Developer and father of two children.

I also develop Ibis, a federated wiki.

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Cake day: January 17th, 2020

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  • The difference is that Mastodon already reached version 1.0 much earlier, but Lemmy did not. In the current development branch we made some large rewrites breaking changes early on. Over time more and more features were added, and we cleared much of the backlog of existing issues. Then instead of calling the new version 0.20 we decided to make it 1.0, which indicates that it will be stable for a very long time. After 1.0 is released we will definitely continue with smaller releases to get changes out faster, and there will be no need for breaking changes.















  • Ads dont really work with federation, because you could simply access the content from another instance which doesnt have ads. Even if ads are directly encoded in the video file, it wouldnt be so hard to add something like sponsorblock to a Peertube instance.

    It seems to me that our only chance is to wait for commercial platforms to enshittify and destroy themselves, because we can never compete with the amount of money and resources they have available.