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Lemmy Development Update July 2025

10mon 19d ago by lemmy.ml/u/dessalines in announcements@lemmy.ml

Work on the backend changes for 1.0 is mostly finished now. What's missing is optimizing the migrations as they currently take about 9 hours for lemmy.ml. Now we are starting to work on updating lemmy-ui for the API changes and new features.

In the last days we did a big cleanup of the lemmy-ui issue tracker, closing 450 mostly outdated issues. Many of these were over a year old describing problems that have long been fixed. From 570 issues only 120 remain. Most of these are very minor, changing a single UI element here or there. It should be possible to implement 90% of them within a month or two.

Here are some of the major changes made over the past month:

Thank you all for your work in contributing to the Fediverse! Both to you two main devs, and everyone that contributes, be it code, hosting or even just adding to the community!

No probs!

Just letting you know that efforts put by you are very much appreciated. What you are doing is doing a great service to the community.

No probs, happy to do it. Doing open source work can be stressful at times, and feel like you have 1000 bosses instead of one or two. But I'm lucky to be working on something of societal value, that benefits people, rather than privatized software development.

feel like you have 1000 bosses instead of one or two

I know that feel lol

o7

wow this is an amazing list of updates. props to all the people who worked on this!

No probs

Yay! Finally post tags!

Ikr, I was losing hope and eyeing to switch to piefed.

Now, onto the managing the post duplication problem, pleaseee.

Having to read same news title again and again unless you block the less popular community or instance is time consuming and annoying.

The default Lemmy-UI does combine crossposts already. Not every app does it.

Maybe there's an issue with it not matching them across multiple pages? But I've definitely seen them being combined and hiding dupes.

There was actually a request to be able to disable this feature but it got declined lol https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/2934

This one was fixed, disabling the deduplication for a single community view https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/2104#issuecomment-2316048658

I appreciate all the hard work being done in creating good decentralized FOSS alternatives to proprietary platforms, so thank you.

The cherry on top is that as far as I can tell you guys are socialists/communists so here's hoping liberals/libertarians/conservatives also inspired by FOSS and decentralized spaces actually start reading marx.

No probs. Class struggle can only be hidden from view (or exported to poorer countries) for a short time, so its inevitable that people will turn to socialist ideas after their conservative ideologies fail to answer any of the most important questions, either about their day-to-day lives, or the world.

Corporate social media can ban and censor communist ideas, but that's impossible on the fediverse. So I'm glad we're here to help fight that.

Great! The foreign key indexes alone will probably eliminate all the slowdowns I refrained from reporting before 1.0 was released.

Thanks for the hard work!!!

I'm curious how the new tag system will work. Could you post when it could be tested in any of the test instances?

Btw, I use a bot to post twice daily in workingclasscalendar@lemmy.world and I've been (ab)using the search system to tag with nice results:

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