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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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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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[โ€“] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 46 points 1 year ago (16 children)

Do you think 'normies' (people with very very little technical knowledge/experience) will be able to come to a decentralized platform like lemmy? Can a platform be successful long term (especially in niche areas) without that super huge low effort part of the user base?

[โ€“] mycroftholmess@lemm.ee 43 points 1 year ago

I think an already established player like Sync or Boost should provide an experience that hand holds newcomers, by leaving little to guess work.

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