I like copyleft and have convinced about 7 projects to convert to copyleft. but in this case its such a small project i don’t really see anyone turning it into some proprietary project and the project losing a lot of contributions because of it. Also even the FSF says that permissive licenses might be better when you implementing standards (And i think you could argue this project is at least partially a implementation of posix).
Definitely OK to promote as long as it is done in a way that is considerate (and that is your case). i suggest also cross posting to more active open source communities like !opensource@lemmy.ml
They report a score which is not very correlated with the number of tests passed (there was a big increase in the number of tests that pass in 2023 but the score barely rose). I could not figure out how to show the score for other browsers on wpt.fyi.
I don’t really know if i should use this abstract metric. other people i think will have similar feelings. seeing a breakdown of the metrics with the bus number seems clearer to me (maybe add “show more”?) . the “defederation” line also seems kinda cryptic. what is the difference between “good” and “Negligent”?.
Lemmy has a similar number of active users and makes about 3K . That money would be good for the ecosystem and could help fund upstream projects (I am sure wine could use the money for example). But they will have to use fundraising methods similar to lemmy to reach that number (popup, good message etc)
The donate page is kinda a mess IMO to be honest. There should be one organisation to donate to otherwise this creates overchoice.
Isn’t basically any software like mastodon where you change the maximum length of posts to be long enough a good alternative? say 1 million words per post.
For group discussions there is piefed/lemmy. And mobilizon for events. for reviews there is neodb.
When i last tried friendica. it was missing the feature which i thought was really good on facebook. seeing what people i appreciate are into by seeing stuff like movies and or even things like meditation or stoicism on their profile page. and maybe reviews of businesses
My ideal page would include:
A review system with average ratings , number of ratings , average “recent ratings” like on steam “recent reviews”, ability to rewrite reviews and give them a rating on scale of 1 to 10. maybe neodb can help implement that.
bus factor: how many people can disappear from the management of the instance and i will be OK.
I would go with the short explanation of fediverse platform built for customization and extension as a one sentence explanation.
besides you could just try it.
With all the reports on countries manipulating online content. that’s like leaving your house in a crime ridden Neighbourhood with the door wide option. as far as i know there is no way to prevent bots when dealing with a highly sophisticated actor like china (which meta reported manipulated online content).
One thing that can help is keeping states about reports user made. if say 90% of the reports are good and the number of reports is say over 50 the person can become a mod. you could also have chart scoring who is the best reporter. The number can be tweaked and you could do some statistical analysis finding the optimal numbers.
Looks like a mistake. feel free to open a issue if you want to: https://github.com/vegastrike/vegastrike.github.io
I might be giving out boomer vibes saying this. but i believe chris rock said it best:
In the old days, if somebody wanted your job, they just worked harder than you. Now, somebody wants your job, they just wait for you to say some dumb shit.
And lets not start talking about richard stallman opinions about child sexuality … (although tbf eventually he retract his statements).
Imagine if he would have got cancelled before the GNU project started. open source would not have been where it is today. and as someone who likes biographies let me suggest that there is a reason they say “never meet your heroes”. but the problem now is you can read about them on the internet. martin luther king cheated a lot, benjamin frankling owned slaves (although at some point he released them) and the list can go on. All people that did very good things.
People might do great things. but they are not infallible . in fact they could spend so much time and thought on achieving great things they might not have time and attention to develop “normal” attitudes about day to day living.
and adding an extra constraint when hiring for a project that is already competing with companies with billions of dollars in budget is not prudent.
Sure people might downvote here but engineers care about facts. have you tried testing this in real world setting? working with moderators? what feedback did you get?
Right now this is experimental. you can’t just use AI and automatically expect it to always do a better job then the established methods.
What i am worried about is that the federation system is already kinda hard to understand. New users who are not hardcore fediverse nerds (Like me and probably the rest of the people answering this post). Could start thinking “what the hell is going on?!” and might think lemmy is obtuse and drop it.
Lemmy could at some point benefit from a UX study where new users volunteer to be observed while the software is first use (software companies sometimes do that). maybe that could verify there are no problems . adding a searchable FAQ and a introductory tutorial (saying something "this will take about 5/10/15 minutes) could help.
Also lemmy has some kind of plugin system. this actually sound like something where a lot of people will want to experiment with different methods (maybe even benchmark them in some way). maybe open an issue asking for the ability to extend sorting with plugins?
tildes.net is pretty good. i augment my use of lemmy and reddit with it.
And there are a ton of them listed here if you want to spend more time doing market research (and share your conclusions if you find anything interesting).
Have you looked at the state of how open source smartphone os projects are funded? Seems like not enough people think it is currently important. i saw no bump in funding since the announcement. I would say the best bet is trying to help one of these projects with fundraising and trying to educate or convince enough people it is worth investing in. and obviously donate if you can. Although to be honest even i don’t do that (i think i invest enough in FOSS).
Once i bought a phone i tried to pick one that is friendly for FOSS projects and went with a pixel (which grapheneos recommended). so voting or signaling with your wallet is an option.
I also think something like codeberg. where anyone can be a member if he pays fees that help fund the organisation and democratically elect a board that decides what to fund could be helpful. codeberg has a pretty good organic growth so that is encouraging but i don’t know if there is enough interest in that.
It actually reports about 27K monthly active users and is one of the more popular platforms on the fediverse.
lemmy indicates clearly liberapay is preferred . and it does seem to have an effect because patreon donations went down at some point while liberapay donations went up.
With that said liberapay fees are cited as being around 3.1% and maybe higher. some digital currencies are almost free (nano, ripple) and despite the hate you see i don’t see a rational reason not to offer them as an option.
Why do you ask?
grok came up with this: