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  • Die4Ever@programming.devEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    I had such a hard time explaining to someone today that there is no universal set of Lemmy rules/politics and you can run your own instance with literally 0 rules

    people have forgotten that things can exist outside of the few billionaire/trillionaire closed source walled gardens they’ve become so reliant on

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, I think that’s great. I think it’s awesome that something like Lemmygrad can exist, while also a community criticizing Lemmygrad (there are several) all on the same platform, and without any real central control.

      If you don’t want to see certain content, you can block it and move on, while getting the benefits of federation.

      I joined communities from a half dozen instances, and I’ll probably join communities from even more as I get better at finding communities.

      • GarbageShootAlt2@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        The communities trying to pillarize the entire fediverse over calling lemmygrad hate speech are, however, not a great thing. Undermining the interconnectedness of the platform at scale by agitating on other platforms that they blacklist or be blacklisted under false pretenses may as well be precision-engineered to negate what is useful about the platform.

  • Christian@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    It’s upsetting to see the shit-talking because I imagine reading that nonsense is emotionally draining, especially when you’re already stressed out with a billion things to do. I’ve seen you guys active in the lemmy community for years and you’ve always been wonderful. I’m sure I’m not the only one who appreciates the work you two have put in and are currently putting in. I’m really happy that your project is starting to catch on.

    • ToastyWaffle@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Honestly we’re all adults here and we all know how the Internet works. Best to not feed the trolls and ignore them. The more attention you give the more it gives the appearances that their rhetoric has validity. Just move on and let’s all focus on making a better fediverse for all

    • StankFlipper@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Agreed! I love the laid back feel of this community and not all the hostility you see everywhere else. With growth comes change though, so I hope the spirit of this group endures.

  • raubarno@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    For the past three years dessalines and I have been funded to work on Lemmy full-time by generous support from the NLnet foundation. These donations are paid out when we implement certain new features. But now we are busy answering questions, reviewing pull requests and urgentlyfixing problems. That means we are unable to work on the milestones agreed with NLnet, and won’t receive payments from them.

    :(

  • wiki_me@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    For us maintainers (dessalines and nutomic), it has resulted in an endless stream of questions and notifications, which is impossible to keep up with. Previously there were 5 - 10 Github notifications per day; now they have risen to over 100 daily.

    That is what i was worried about, Feedback for developers probably correlates with the number of active users , more users mean more feedback (github issues and comments) and more stuff to read, I thought this might not be a problem because i looked at mastodon and didn’t see a lot of issues getting opened in a day, but it’s the comments that could be the real problem, unless you will improve your funding and start hiring more people (even temporarily hiring freelancers) things will probably get worst and you will lose a lot of good feedback.

    We are increasingly reliant on user donations to pay our bills. These donations currently add up to 1500 Euros per month, which is not even enough to pay minimum wage for the two of us. Hopefully more users can consider donating, so that we can put our full attention to making Lemmy better for everyone, and possibly add more developers to our worker co-op in the future.

    looking at liberapay , patreon and opencollective my calculation says you are getting about 4465 dollars (2714+217.58*4.345+806) when this comment was written , that’s about 0.15 dollar per active user (assuming about 28K monthly active users).

    For comparison beehaw has about 3069 monthly active users and got this month (6/1/2023 -> 6/17/2023) about $3,461.60 ( 1.12 dollar per user, probably better then reddit for most of it’s history).

    So i am pretty sure the problem is with getting funding (most people are not aware of the option to donate, or/and are not convinced or incentived to do it). Lemmy should work on it’s conversation rate.

    If you are interested, i worked for a while on a guide to help fund open source and got some good feedback on it, maybe you will find it useful.

    • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      From what I’ve seen, the fediverse generally is doing a rather poor job of normalising donations from users. If you have some expertise or experience in this domain, and are willing, I’d urge you to just get involved and gather people or whatever you can to create better tools or design patterns or strategies for this.

      I suspect there’s trepidation from developers to get to “pushy” with donations and so turn off their user base, and yet they don’t really no how to go about it well and so it just becomes a lost issue when in reality it is central to a “free” fediverse.

      I also worry that getting this right earlier rather than later is important. As people join the fediverse, they absorb the culture, norms and design language of the place. The earlier donations are just a normal part of things, the sooner they’re actually normalised.

    • CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I subscribed to their Patreon. I don’t pay for subscriptions normally, but for an open source platform I’ll gladly pay to keep it that way!

  • Red Wizard 🪄@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I’m in it for the long haul, the first federated service I’ve used that felt like a true replacement for it’s centralized counterpart.

  • Deedasmi@lemmy.timdn.comEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    When will we get details about security vulnerability? Is there a formal method for instance owners to stay up to date on those kinds of notices?

    Thanks for the work my friends.

    • nutomic@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      It’s xss, so users could include javascript code in posts which would be executed in other users browsers. We announce new releases in a couple of places, like the instance admin chat, !lemmy@lemmy.ml community and github releases.

  • Kuvwert@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    God I appreciate these dudes. I don’t envy them one bit right now…

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Well, I’m lending a hand. I have some patches in production already, and I’ve only been contributing for a week or so.

        If you have the means, please help out. There are tons of bugs, important features, etc, and it’s a pretty stable base, so it’s a good time to jump in.

  • NotSpez@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Gang, I’d never pay for reddit gold but I sure as h*ck will pay monthly to support lemmy. You all should too!

  • scrollbars@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    It’s not much but I upped my contributions a bit. Thank you for everything you’ve done for the open, non-corporate internet.