We have lemmy apps that still aren’t supporting API changes added over a year ago. We even had one such case last week.
That sounds like something could be improve. is there some sort of warning mechanism in place?
Say when using a lemmy client. the client either specifies its a production build. or if its not then the lemmy server reports where deprecated API’s are used.
Not sure that is the correct approach. break frequently break often seems better (that’s what PHP and java seem to do as far as i can tell, unlike python 3 which caused a lot of drama).
notify a API is deprecated. give some time for users to update to the new API (1 year?) and then remove it.
Of course after version 1.0 there might be less breakage so it won’t be a be problem.
Why not provide a option to use an a desktop app?. maybe also add a flatpak. self hosting seems kinda complicated and i am not sure what are the benefits of that.
Also a demo instance would be nice.
This isn’t what i had in mind. i meant more like changing the line to something like:
We’d like to thank our many contributors and users of Lemmy for coding, translating, testing, donating money and helping find and fix bugs.
With “donating money” maybe replaced with “funding”.
I think liberapay has that feature.
We’d like to thank our many contributors and users of Lemmy for coding, translating, testing, and helping find and fix bugs
I feel like people giving their hard earned money for lemmy also should get a show of appreciation.
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.
Honestly if you are interested in working on this domain. something like “amazon for red hats” sounds like a better idea. where you are able to subscribe to a organisation and he can gather feedback on what work people want the most (features and bug fixes). but only people paying money are allowed to vote. with data on which organisation are growing in their revenue and number of subscribers which is another indicator (like liberapay view income history section). and of course ability to write reviews and give ratings but again only for paying customers so there will be no review bombing.
I wouldn’t. id rather give it to some FOSS non profit that would allocate the resources intelligently tbh.
If its off by default that is a reasonable suggestion.
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.
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
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.
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.
Allow people who fund the platform vote on features (that are pre approved ). who contribute more get more in return.
“time well spent”. and maximizing the “average quality of content”. maybe by allowing custom feeds. or feeds that are based only on the votes of trusted users. with governance models supporting how those feeds are managed like how KDE and GNOME nonprofits are managed. maybe vote on best post/comment of the day/week/year/decade with leaderboards for that.
Linus law of trail and error. allow people to easily extend the software .with plugins and ideally a store with reviews for addons like in firefox and chrome. making experimentation easier and safer (without risking adding a bad feature to all users of the software). vote on features implemented rating for example how satisfied you are on a scale of one to ten.
information over speculations . use A/B testing to see what works in practice. maybe use “counted statement” for example “this is useful” or “this is important” beyond lemmy and reddit upvotes and downvotes.
Right now a life changing post from world class expert and a funny cat picture with someone who spend too much time online are treated the same by the software. this should somehow change.