New NLnet funding for Lemmy

The NLnet foundation has previously provided three funding rounds for Lemmy, which allowed Dessalines and Nutomic to work fulltime on the project. With this funding we were able to implement fundamental features such as federation, and to get Lemmy ready for production and to prepare for the huge migration of Reddit users.

Now we have good news, a new round of funding was approved for a total of € 50.000. For the first time there will be two additional developers receiving funding: Phiresky, who has made numerous contributions to federation and database code. And Sunaurus, admin of lemm.ee who contributed many bug fixes. They will help to implement new features faster and spread the workload.

By the way, if you want to see a particular feature implemented, we always welcome contributions via pull requests. Additionally we are available for paid work on specific features. You can send a mail to contact at join-lemmy.org, or message @nutomic:matrix.org to discuss the details.

Without further ado, here are the approved milestones and payment amounts:

• Private communities (RFC link, 6000€)
• Improvements for outgoing federation (3000€)
• SQL paging and filtering for multiple types (6750€)
• Plugin System and example Plugin (3000€)
• Post scheduling (1500€)
• Improve Linking Federated Posts (2250€)
• Automatic Language Tagging (1500€)
• Poll support (3500€)
• Moderation Improvements (4500€)
  • Include instance blocks in mod log (750€)
  • Implement warnings, notify user when warned (2250€)
  • Attach unresolved report counts to comment and post payloads (1500€)
• Rework API Endpoints for API v4 (€ 6000)
  • Separate endpoints for image upload (3000€)
  • Move taglines and emojis into separate paged endpoint (1500)
  • Reduce amount of redundant data returned (1500€)
• Multi-communities (6000€)
• Ease discovery of federated communities (3000€)
• Post tags (RFC link, 4500€)