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What are your thoughts on blocking AI scraper access? Any attempts to improve that on the side of Lemmy? Basic things like allowing to customize the robots.txt easily would already help.
I also recently tried this new AI block tool called Anubis with Lemmy, but for some reason it fails with Lemmy-ui. Might be interesting to investigate further.
Anyone that wants to scrape Lemmy would have an easier time setting up their own server, federating with everyone, and reading straight from their DB. No web scraping required. Though, web scraping defenses would be useful against general web scrapers/crawlers.
That would require the authors of these AI scrapers to actually give a f*ck. The problem is that they don't, and just scrape what ever they can find repeatatly almost like a ddos attack on the open web.
Yup, same as they could clone git repos in one shot, but they instead crawl every single page.
Some Lemmy clients offer the option to auto-hide posts and comments which contain certain keywords of the choice of the user. Are there any plans to implement this feature into the stock Lemmy experience?
I know it is possible to do some hacky stuff with UblockOrigin to do the same, but that is not something most know about and are willing to do.
Hello,
Thank you for organizing this AMA!
Starting with a quite expected question: when do you think you'll be able to release Lemmy 1.0?
Just wanted to say I LOVE lemmy! It's a really positive community, the atmosphere is great and I like how it's unique but also familiar. I really appreciate your work on it. I know this is AMA... what's your favourite animal?
Communities should be more unified across servers, especially for niche ones. I want to see an active Metroid community, I don't give a crap what instance is hosting it (or if it's a mostly-opaque medley of instances) so long as I'm federated with it. This is probably the biggest UX misunderstanding new users have.
Old user, haven't been active recently. Where'd all this growth come from?? Another reddit refugee situation?
What is your opinion on Bluesky being more popular than Mastodone because it is easier for most?
Will Lemmy can become easy like Bluesky? Are there plans like that?
thanks
edit: lemmy dev replies only please
It is easier to use because it doesn't concern itself with federation or decentralization yet.
Lemmy would also be easy to use if we could only use one instance.
You're basically comparing a centralized platform with a decentralized one. Of course the centralized one is easier to use.
Some companies use Reddit as their main forum or an established way to communicate with customers. Are there any companies that have explored Lemmy and have their community yet?