Nutomic

Lemmy Lead Developer and father of two children.

I also develop [Ibis](https://ibis.wiki/ ), a federated wiki.

Last Notes

2026-03-16 10:55:01 UTC

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Good idea, adding this to Lemmy.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/6409

2026-03-13 20:16:27 UTC

This release fixes federation with Lemmy.

2025-12-09 09:12:38 UTC

## What is Lemmy?
Lemmy is a self-hosted social link aggregation and discussion platform. It is completely free and open, and not controlled by any company. This means that there is no advertising, tracking, or secret algorithms. Content is organized into communities, so it is easy to subscribe to topics that you are interested in, and ignore others. Voting is used to bring the most interesting items to the top. Thanks to @flamingos-cant for contributing to resolve this.
## Changes
Recently some malicious users started to use an exploit where they would post rule violating content and then delete the account. This would prevent admins and mods from viewing the user profile to find other posts, and would also prevent federation of ban actions.
The new release fixes these problems. Thanks to @flamingos-cant for contributing to solve this.
## Upgrade instructions
There are no breaking changes with this release.
Follow the upgrade instructions for [ansible](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ansible/blob/main/UPGRADING.md) or [docker](https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/administration/install_docker.html#updating).
If you need help with the upgrade, you can ask in our [support forum](https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy_support) or on the [Matrix Chat](https://matrix.to/#/!OwmdVYiZSXrXbtCNLw:matrix.org).
## Thanks to everyone
We'd like to thank our many contributors and users of Lemmy for coding, translating, testing, and helping find and fix bugs. We're glad many people find it useful and enjoyable enough to contribute.
## Support development
We (@dessalines and @nutomic) have been working full-time on Lemmy for over five years. This is largely thanks to support from [NLnet foundation](https://nlnet.nl/), as well as [donations from individual users](https://join-lemmy.org/donate).
If you like using Lemmy, and want to make sure that we will always be available to work full time building it, consider [donating to support its development](https://join-lemmy.org/donate). A recurring donation is the best way to ensure that open-source software like Lemmy can stay independent and alive, and helps us grow our little developer co-op to support more full-time developers.
- [Liberapay](https://liberapay.com/Lemmy) (preferred option)
- [Open Collective](https://opencollective.com/lemmy)
- [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/dessalines)
- [Cryptocurrency](https://join-lemmy.org/crypto)

2025-03-25 11:40:36 UTC

In the last weeks Lemmy has seen a lot of growth, with thousands of new users. To welcome them we are holding this AMA to answer questions from the community. You can ask about the beginnings of Lemmy, how we see the future of Lemmy, our long-term goals, what makes Lemmy different from Reddit, about internet and social media in general, as well as personal questions.
We'd also like to hear your overall feedback on Lemmy: What are its greatest strengths and weaknesses? How would you improve it? What's something you wish it had? What can our community do to ensure that we keep pulling users away from US tech companies, and into the fediverse?
Lemmy and Reddit may look similar at first glance, but there is a major difference. While Reddit is a corporation with thousands of employees and billionaire investors, Lemmy is nothing but an open source project run by volunteers. It was started in 2019 by @npub13m3…fl4p and @npub17g6…xrv5, turning into a fulltime job since 2020. For our income we are dependent on [your donations](https://join-lemmy.org/donate), so please contribute if you can. We'd like to be able to add more full-time contributors to our co-op.
We will start answering questions from tomorrow (Wednesday). Besides @dessalines and @nutomic, other Lemmy contributors may also chime in to answer questions:
- @npub1sr5…2t9c
- @npub1f05…9xz0
- @npub15p0…sspd
- @npub1sc7…63df
Here are our previous AMAs for those interested.
- [August 2023](https://lemmy.ml/post/2920188)
- [January 2024](https://lemmy.ml/post/11023519)

2025-02-26 11:52:48 UTC

We Distribute is a community-organized news site which covers the Fediverse. If you like to write about federated social media then you could help to expand their coverage.
See the link above for more details.

2025-01-14 10:40:46 UTC

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Funny, Mastodon just posted a similar thing about creating a foundation. But the problem is, the existence of a foundation does nothing to prevent billionaires from controlling social media. For billionaires its very easy to donate a few hundred thousand USD to the foundation and gain influence that way. I expect that Bluesky will be fine for the first years (maybe like early Twitter), but sooner or later the foundation will take decisions that the users dont like, and there is nothing they can do about it.
In my view, the only way to avoid influence from billionaires is to avoid any large centralized structures. In the Fediverse there are dozens of platforms and thousands of instances. Even if a billionaire were to take control over a couple of projects or large instances, people would create forks in a matter of days. Some admins would block these corrupted instances, and their users would barely notice that anything changed.
So Bluesky is just trying to repeat something that has already failed. The Fediverse is the future, but it will take a long time for most people to understand that.

2024-12-13 09:05:06 UTC

## What is Lemmy?
Lemmy is a self-hosted social link aggregation and discussion platform. It is completely free and open, and not controlled by any company. This means that there is no advertising, tracking, or secret algorithms. Content is organized into communities, so it is easy to subscribe to topics that you are interested in, and ignore others. Voting is used to bring the most interesting items to the top.
## Changes
This release includes a few minor fixes and improvements. Merry Christmas Everyone!
### Lemmy
- [Provide health endpoint for pictrs at `/pictrs/healthz`](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/5224)
- [Allow bypassing image proxy for specific domains](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/5223) (can be configured via config value `pictrs.proxy_bypass_domains`, and `i.imgur.net` is bypassed by default)
[API returns content of removed comments for admins](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/5245)
### Lemmy-UI
- Updated translations
## Upgrade instructions
There are no breaking changes with this release.
Follow the upgrade instructions for [ansible](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ansible/blob/main/UPGRADING.md) or [docker](https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/administration/install_docker.html#updating).
If you need help with the upgrade, you can ask in our [support forum](https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy_support) or on the [Matrix Chat](https://matrix.to/#/!OwmdVYiZSXrXbtCNLw:matrix.org).
## Thanks to everyone
We'd like to thank our many contributors and users of Lemmy for coding, translating, testing, and helping find and fix bugs. We're glad many people find it useful and enjoyable enough to contribute.
## Support development
We (@dessalines and @nutomic) have been working full-time on Lemmy for over five years. This is largely thanks to support from [NLnet foundation](https://nlnet.nl/), as well as [donations from individual users](https://join-lemmy.org/donate).
If you like using Lemmy, and want to make sure that we will always be available to work full time building it, consider [donating to support its development](https://join-lemmy.org/donate). A recurring donation is the best way to ensure that open-source software like Lemmy can stay independent and alive, and helps us grow our little developer co-op to support more full-time developers.
- [Liberapay](https://liberapay.com/Lemmy) (preferred option)
- [Open Collective](https://opencollective.com/lemmy)
- [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/dessalines)
- [Cryptocurrency](https://join-lemmy.org/crypto)