The charts above show growth of active users on thelemmy.club (left) and lemmus.org which are suggested on join-lemmy.org. It shows that improvements to the official project site really have a (small) influence on user growth. There are also a few new features:

• Country-specific instance suggestions with API endpoint
• NSFW selection for instance list

This past month we've been working on lemmy-ui bug fixes and visual improvements, and a few remaining lemmy back end issues to get ready for the 1.0 release. We've closed over 20 lemmy-ui milestone issues, and have only a few remaining. The only major issue left is performance-testing, to ensure all our database changes and optimizations are working correctly.

You can follow our progress with these milestone links:

• https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/milestone/24
• https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/milestone/5

If you'd like to see the new features and visual updates in production, you can visit voyager.lemmy.ml which deploys updates every night. Please help by testing the new features and reporting any problems.

If you have any experience with web development or want to learn it, consider contributing to lemmy-ui. It is written in standard Typescript with Bootstrap.

If you have experience with Kotlin or Android development, you can help contribute to lemmy's open source android app, Jerboa.

Thank you to everyone who has helped out with testing, development, spreading the word about lemmy, and building communities. Your help has brought lemmy from an idea to one of the most vital pieces of software in the fediverse.

Here are the major changes from February:

Or see the full list of changes at the links below:

• Backend
• Frontend
• join-lemmy.org
• Jerboa

An open source project the size of Lemmy needs constant work to manage the project, implement new features and fix bugs. Dessalines and Nutomic work full-time on these tasks and more. As there is no advertising or tracking, all of our work is funded through donations. Even so there is barely enough time in the day, and no time for a second job. The only available option are user donations.

To keep it viable donations need to reach a minimum of 5000€ per month, resulting in a modest salary of 2500€ per developer. If that goal is reached we can stop worrying about money, and fully focus on improving the software for the benefit of all users and instances. We especially rely on recurring donations to secure the long-term development and make Lemmy the best it can be.

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Great work! Thanks for the update!!!

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lemmy 1.0.0 ui is gonna be so cool

Looking forward to the community visibility feature.

There are bots on Lemmy that duplicate posts from sources like Reddit. They usually post into special locked communities on dedicated instances (such as lemmit.online). Most instances have banned these bots to avoid flooding the local feed with high-volume bot reposts. And this makes perfect sense.

But with the ability to unlist a community, we probably won't need to ban such bots and can instead ask their authors to unlist those automated communities. This way, people who want to occasionally read posts from niche Reddit communities can still access them without hurting proper Lemmy growth.

Why suggest lemmy.org? Lemmy.org hasn't updated from v0.19.11 for about a year now.

The admin is not active and the instance is pretty much unmoderated => used for spam.

I doubt it will leave a good first impression of Lemmy on newcomers.

https://lemmy.org/u/Mazdak seems to still be an active account, IDK about moderation actions though

But I was surprised to see that this instance has ads...

Isn't it lemmus.org not lemmy.org?

I’ve had it recommend both on different refreshes.

thank you for doing this; it's badly needed in today's environment.

Looks like youre right, I'm removing it.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/joinlemmy-site/pull/606

Both:

https://github.com/LemmyNet/joinlemmy-site/pull/588/changes/79bdae5b834c0c88e6650726270e64f6c681b057

Amazing work as always, it's been amazing to watch Lemmy evolve for six years I've been here now. It's really come a long way, and fantastic to see your dedication to the project for such a long haul. O7

a minimum of 5000€ per month, resulting in a modest salary of 2500€ per developer

how much is that in €?

heh, EUR. Must have gotten messed up in the copy somewhere.