This is an opportunity for any users, server admins, or interested third parties to ask anything they’d like to @[email protected] 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.

Original Announcement thread

  • @notExactlyI20
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    331 year ago

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

    • DessalinesOPM
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      561 year ago

      It was

      On the negative side, for about 2 months, I got an average of 5 hours sleep a night, got 12k+ notifications on github alone, and every day was a new stressful emergency.

      But it also helped us expose a bunch of security issues, and help expose and optimize some of our DB issues, so in that sense a reddit-sized stress-test was of long-term benefit to the project.

      Luckily things have calmed down now, and we’re able to cope with things a bit better.