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.ml type 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.

Edit: Here are the milestones for the funding

  • @fruechtchen@lemmy.ml
    3•4 years ago

    I can highly recommend to donate to nlnet. Some things which they also have funded (as far as i know/if i remember correctly):

    • https://searx.me/
    • conversations.im audio/video call support
    • dino XMPP client
    • briar, end to end encrypted, peer2peer messenger who can work without central server, for instance over a bluetooth/wlan mesh network. very interesting for activists.
    • funkwhale, the activitypub/fediverse client, specializing on podcast/musik service
    • hubzilla, an activitypub/fediverse client
    • nextcloud
    • pixelfed
    • postmarketos

    the list is huge. i’m actually really suprised what nlnet.nl has already sponsored, the list is huge.

    full list: https://nlnet.nl/project/current.html

  • @magicalprivacy@lemmy.ml
    1•4 years ago

    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!

  • 江尚寒
    1•3 years ago

    i think we need the function “block user” to avoid spams. lol

  • @k_o_t@lemmy.ml
    1•4 years ago

    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?

    • @nutomic@lemmy.mlOPM
      1•4 years ago

      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.

  • @KillaryKlinton@lemmy.ml
    0•4 years ago

    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.