Lemmy Development Update November 2025

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We're still working hard on the 1.0 release, needing a few more major additions to lemmy-ui, and some less critical items for lemmy.

Then it will be a period of performance and bug testing, as well as giving time to allow app devs to update to the API changes.

The major changes during November were:

Full list of changes by user

flamingos-cant

dessalines

Nutomic

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

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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Thanks, the Backwards compatibility is huge for us! We have a bunch of users who depend on mlem or thunder, so I was assuming I'd have to wait until updated versions of both of those apps was released to upgrade rblind.

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Exciting!

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I also developed a plugin for automatic language tagging of posts/comments, it works quite well even on very short text. Will also put it on voyager.lemmy.ml soon.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-plugins/pull/6

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Why is it not a part of the project itself if you don't mind me asking? i would imagine plugins are for the more opinionated or experimental features.

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There are a few reasons:
- Test if the plugin system really works
- As an example for other plugins
- Avoid bloating Lemmy core with functionality that isnt needed by everyone
- With plugins its much easier to make adjustments or new releases, and no need to wait for a new Lemmy release (and no need to fork all of Lemmy for minor adjustments)

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Is Multi-Community UI already available? I can see it is merged, but is it released?

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No we are a long way off from a 1.0 release yet.

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It will be available for testing on voyager.lemmy.ml soon.

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You can try it now on voyager.

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Thanks for the reminder and breakdown of donation. It isn't much, but I hope my coffee-sized recurring donation helps

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Everything helps, thx! I'd much rather have many ppl doing smaller donations, than a few large donors.

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The backeards api compat is huge. Thanks for that!

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Ooh this is really great stuff. Thanks for all the amazing work :)

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Is Multi-community something similar to piefed's topics feature?

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Yes just like that, and it will be compatible over federation.

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Its like multi-reddits.

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