It’s a fair worry.

As the admin of thelemmy.club though I will say my aim is absolutely not growth for it’s own sake. If the site starts to get larger than I want I will stop allowing signups. I welcome new users, but I’m not trying to be a big instance either.

Probably. It would need to be updated with new laws and rules though.

Right. Well it should be good for 2025, so it depends on how much/if any changes there are in the next year.

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-house-republican-kill-irs-direct-file-2025-5

Will it continue to be?

Unless it’s maintained it won’t be of much use. It needs to be kept up to date with tax laws, and it relies entirely on the IRS accepting the generated returns. It seems it may function for now, though.

Direct File interprets the United States’ Internal Revenue Code (26 USC) as plain language questions, the answers to which should be known to taxpayers without need of external instructions or publications. Taxpayers’ answers are then translated into standard tax forms and transmitted to the IRS’s Modernized e-File (MeF) API, which is available for authorized public use

Direct File interprets the United States’ Internal Revenue Code (26 USC) as plain language questions, the answers to which should be known to taxpayers without need of external instructions or publications. Taxpayers’ answers are then translated into standard tax forms and transmitted to the IRS’s Modernized e-File (MeF) API, which is available for authorized public use

Direct File interprets the United States’ Internal Revenue Code (26 USC) as plain language questions, the answers to which should be known to taxpayers without need of external instructions or publications. Taxpayers’ answers are then translated into standard tax forms and transmitted to the IRS’s Modernized e-File (MeF) API, which is available for authorized public use

The historical backlog isn’t going anywhere. It will still be viewable on other instances.

For example here’s an old thread from a community on vlemmy.net, an instance that disappeared more than a year ago.

https://thelemmy.club/post/147822?scrollToComments=true

It sounds like this could be functional?

Taxpayers’ answers are then translated into standard tax forms and transmitted to the IRS’s Modernized e-File (MeF) API, which is available for authorized public use.

It would need to be kept updated with changing laws but could we see forks turn into a FOSS tax prep software?

Is there any way to test for this?

Would it make that much of a difference? I doubt you’d be pushing more performance.

Wow thanks for the info and the work. I don’t use it much since 99% of my Lemmy use is on mobile and I prefer stock Lemmy for admin stuff, but I know at least a few of my users use it.

I’m going to see if that fork is something I can just drop in the docker compose file. That’ll be awesome if so.

Do they intend to make it 1.0 compatible or is this beyond the scope right now?

Some instances host this themselves too.

https://app.thelemmy.club/

https://old.thelemmy.club/

Unfortunately with Lemmy 1.0 MLMYM (the software used to provide this UI) will have to be shutdown, unless the MLMYM dev re-appears or someone forks and maintains it.

I have been so very clear on this being about .ml and the admins in charge of it that it’s obvious you’re just posting a straw man.

Your intentions can be whatever. You are actively harming Lemmy and the fediverse as a whole.

Because they use the .ml instance and it’s influence as being associated as the “Official Dev Instance”

Really because every turn I see it seems like they push people away from joining .ml…

fair and unbiased as possible

What does this even mean?

We get it, you hate Lemmy as a platform. You try so hard to make it less appealing by splitting discussions on posts by reposting stuff needlessly. Really makes Lemmy look even more unoriginal and boring seeing the same posts 3 times in different places all the time. Then you spearhead some movement to try to get people to not donate to Lemmy development at all, making it harder for these people who are trying to make Lemmy their life’s work to be able to even survive. It’s actually gross.

First question is - are you familiar with Linux command line at all? If not get familiar with it first.

Second you’ll need to own or buy a domain and point it to the server’s IP.

Then install either Ubuntu Server or Debian on the server, setup SSH and run this Ansible project - https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ansible

If that’s not comprehensible to you, I’d really recommend getting more familiar with Linux command line and servers before I’d recommend starting a Lemmy instance.

I think you’ve won, great work!