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Lemmy Lead Developer and father of two children.

I also develop Ibis, a federated wiki.

  • Oh yes, I need to rewatch this one!

  • MediaWiki is a much bigger project, with probably dozens of developers working on it full-time. It has a lot more features. Ibis on the other hand is only a small project which I'm developing on the side. If Wikipedia wanted to federate, the best option would be adding that logic directly into MediaWiki.

  • Oops youre right, I closed registrations a while ago as I wasnt working on Ibis and there were too many spam accounts. Opened it for now, later I need to add something like Lemmy's registration application.

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world

    Ibis 0.3.2 - Wikipedia Import, UI Translation and more

  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml

    Ibis 0.3.2 - Wikipedia Import, UI Translation and more

  • Ibis @lemmy.ml

    Ibis 0.3.2 - Wikipedia Import, UI Translation and more

  • Announcements @lemmy.ml

    Lemmy Release v0.19.18

    join-lemmy.org /news/2026-04-20_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.19.18
  • Highly qualified people are probably not interested in working for the government. Or maybe this was outsourced to some cheap private company, who knows.

  • Yes that is what I mean, admins can only see private messages that their own local users are either sending or receiving. Not from users on other instances.

    I agree that privacy is important, but most admins probably couldnt care less what their users are writing in private messages. And there is a tradeoff between implementing end-to-end encryption, or implementing other features that may be more important.

  • Setting an instance is easy, but actually getting a significant amount of users is much more difficult. And as admin you can only see the private messages of your local users, no one else. So if you are not talking about illegal stuff the risk is negligible. And if you are, use a real messenger application or better yet avoid all computers.

  • Private messages are completely private, you as normal user can never see someone elses private message. The only ones who can theoretically read private messages from other users are instance admins. Exactly the same on Reddit or Twitter by the way. But if any admin actually does that, people would quickly spread the word and leave that instance.

    End-to-end encryption does add some extra security in that admins also cannot read other users private messages. I dont think that people really send very sensitive information through Lemmy private messages, it is better to use an actual messenger application for that.

  • Sorry for the late response. I dont see any community with this name, would you post a link?

  • Done!

  • Announcements @lemmy.ml

    Lemmy Development Update March 2026

  • Looks neat! In fact I never heard much about Quake having singleplayer.

  • That was a fun achievement, and not really that difficult. Only way you could fail was if you forgot the gnome somewhere.

  • What do you mean by instance url redirection?

    We discussed about merged comments for same post url, but there was no clear support for it. Many people dont care or warn that it could have unwanted side effects.

  • Mods are developed by fans in their free time, like the original Counter-Strike. To play it you had to own the original game and could get the mod for free. In contrast games like Half-Life are developed by a company with full-time employees, and sold for money.

    Of course Counter-Strike hasn't been a mod for a long time now. Valve took it over and turned it into a full game.

  • Oh yes bought it on release because of all the hype. Then stopped playing after two hours because it was so boring and generic.

  • The main problem with Witcher 3 is that it's way too long. Was a real slog to reach the ending. Didn't even bother with the addons. Cyberpunk was great in my opinion.

  • join-lemmy.org now shows you a suggested instance where you can signup immediately. No need to choose an instance.

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world

    PeerTube v8.1 is out!

    joinpeertube.org /news/release-8.1
  • Announcements @lemmy.ml

    Lemmy Release v0.19.16

    join-lemmy.org /news/2026-03-03_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.19.16
  • Fedigrow @lemmy.zip

    How to Leave Big Tech (Lemmy mentioned)

  • Lemmy @lemmy.ml

    Documentation for writing Lemmy 1.0 Plugins

    join-lemmy.org /docs/contributors/08-plugins.html
  • Fediverse @lemmy.world

    Statistics for Lemmy Instances and Communities

  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml

    Statistics for Lemmy Instances and Communities

  • Announcements @lemmy.ml

    Lemmy Development Update January 2026

  • Lemmy @lemmy.ml

    New Lemmy Statistics Available

  • Today I learned @lemmy.ml

    TIL that Reddit has achievements

  • Lemmy @lemmy.ml

    How to describe Lemmy in a single Sentence?

  • Lemmy @lemmy.ml

    Joinlemmy website and New User Onboarding

  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml

    Lemmy now (partially) federates with Bluesky via Bridgyfed

  • Announcements @lemmy.ml

    Lemmy Development Update December 2025

  • Announcements @lemmy.ml

    Lemmy Release v0.19.15 and Testing for 1.0

    join-lemmy.org /news/2025-12-24_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.19.15_and_Testing_for_1.0
  • Privacy @lemmy.ml

    No AI* Here - A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter - Waterfox Blog

    www.waterfox.com /blog/no-ai-here-response-to-mozilla/