Some of them are paid , they get donation money , and also from the NLNET iirc (which is tax payer money iirc).

Anyway this isn’t how you handle feedback , there is a reason wikipedia has a guideline called assume good faith , because if you are not assuming good faith you are probably assuming bad faith and that makes it difficult for an organisation to function for obvious reasons.

Integrating with patreon or opencollective where one of the rewards is access to supporter only lemmy communities might be a good use case for a plugin system.

The project is missing developers, if you want to then implement them yourself , or fund raise the money using a bounty platform like polar, some of the ideas are fairly controversial and linus law of trail and error apply here, with that said i think lemmy could benefit from a add on system like those wordpress and discourse have and those ideas can be checked out.

Personally i had them accept some of my feedback before (e.g. i am the one who requested the ability to block an instance which got implemented despite one of the developers were against it and the other suggested i should switch instances).

Just try to be prudent and persuasive .

Any highlights from the study?

It seems mostly like “lemmy is now moderately liked”.

Companies use customer satisfaction as a way to estimate their future potential (like apple was cited as a company with a relatively high customer satisfaction, and indeed it’s stock and profits later seemed to surge).

Would be interesting to see something like that for lemmy (you can replace “customer” with “user” for this discussion it’s basically the same thing). comparing 1-10 rating of lemmy vs reddit or other platforms (but sample it well, to avoid review bombing), You can compare reddit google play rating with those of jerboa , but that has it own problems (for example a lot of people don’t use a mobile client i believe).

Codeberg and other alternatives are used by 2 people, if not more

It last reported it has about 400 members (people who pay money) , liberapay shows about 190 supports (and the number is slowly but consistently growing for years).

This is very frustrating if you want to report just one issue or make one pull request. Self-hosted repos are even worse.

It takes about a minute to make an account and store it in a password manager, it might be better because a higher threshold for contributing might mean a higher average quality of contributions.

Obligatory mention of Linus law of trail and error:

“Don’t ever make the mistake [of thinking] that you can design something better than what you get from ruthless massively parallel trial-and-error with a feedback cycle. That’s giving your intelligence much too much credit.”

Create a instance and lets see what happens.

Overall i think allowing donation is a good idea, supporting independent creators is good because big companies tend to go after the Lowest common denominator.

There is also mitra.

The point is i think it is a moderation decision to do that, you are welcome to host your own instance with a modified version of lemmy.

I find that problematic from an ethical perspective.

You are not entitled to the moderation you want, host your own instance, it’s their club.

obligatory

There is this proposal about feedback on moderator actions, and didn’t see a request for adding an ability to appeal , maybe open a issue?

It might be useful to have some sort of graph showing if the donations are increasing or decreasing, something like graphtreon or liberapay view income history, If they are decreasing (which might be the case as active user count and number of servers is decreasing), it might be an indication we should evaluate or reevaluate some things about the project.

I suggest people add anything really great to [email protected] .

That’s yet another example of why you should not believe everything you read online, see this .

milk-v is going to release a pretty powerful system, iirc i read it will be released in about 10 months, ventana also reportedly will release a server cpu in 2024.

I would try some community (on reddit?) of arabs living in countries where there is free speech (the democracy index might help with that) If someone is in a arab country and the instance they host publishes content that is against it’s government serious harm can come to them.

This was asked before, but it is under the AGPL (which means that if you modify the code you must make the modifications public), to make it a closed source project you would have to get the agreement of every contributor or rewrite it’s code which is very hard to do (and i don’t think i ever heard something like this happened). The federated aspect is another line of defense.

Not for me, Reddit enhancement suite “!read” filter (configured for marking clicked comments as read) and this extension makes it a lot better.

For as many users as lemmy has now, its kind of astonishing how little donations we have, like less than the average youtuber / streamer with a patreon. Its more when we sum up the other platforms, but I’d really like us to be able to add more full-time devs and grow the coop.

Why look at youtubers when you can look at a open source project?, look at misskey which is very similar , it makes about 4k while having about 10k monthly active users, that’s about 0.4 dollar per user.

Lemmy has about 40k monthly active users and makes about 3962 , about 0.1 dollar per user.

If you will push the conversation rate to be as high as misskey, that should give you currently about 16K a month (40k * 0.4).

I have a few ideas about how to increase it, i can open a issue throwing some ideas, for starter (I don’t remember if i said this before) the part in the UI where people are suppose to learn lemmy wants donations (the little heart), is probably very hard to notice.

Right now it is way too hard to follow discussions on lemmy, you have to keep hunting for new comments that get added, not to mention with github you get email notifications, it’s a lot more efficient.

The best solution IMO would be “mark as read” (by clicking) that does not show comments marked as read (which is what reddit enhancement suite does.

Its way too hard to keep reading comments in a post you like if you are interested in it.

That’s not really possible because there’s no way to know which instance to direct someone to. No point directing them to an instance where they don’t have an account.

At least they will know it is on lemmy , then they can figure out how to use it. And that’s a general problem of the fediverse, there are extensions that redirect you to your home instance for that.

Also I don’t think showing buttons like upvote which just redirect to another page is a good UX at all.

I think it is at least better then the current state, where you have a tiny button that testing with heat maps will probably show is almost invisible, maybe adding text “go to lemmy to participate in the discussion” is also a decent option.