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Announcements

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Official announcements from the Lemmy project. Subscribe to this community or add it to your RSS reader in order to be notified about new releases and important updates.

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

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[–] Murvel@lemm.ee 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 64 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We're just two software devs, and prefer to stay anonymous / undoxxed.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Would you consider reaching out to Victoria and see if she would be willing to start a new AMA community? This seems to be a chance to recreate all the best of the old/lost internet

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago

Someone could do that for us, we're pretty busy.

[–] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 12 points 1 year ago

That would be epic

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That would be great, but remember that Victoria was a paid employee at Reddit. Lemmy isn't a company and it's not trying to be, so there's no pay incentive.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

She was? I thought she started as a volunteer

[–] nix@merv.news 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is her social media public?

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 year ago

Im from Germany and studied computer science. Was always very interested in open source and decentralized software. Worked in a couple different companies, but was never happy making profit for someone else. Luckily I found Lemmy shortly after Dessalines started the project, and put a lot of work into it. Then we found the NLnet funding which allowed us to work fulltime on the project.