There is always a chance of open source projects dying off, but if there's an active user base who enjoy the software it will usually not die easy.
Mbin is a good example of this. It started out as Kbin, which was a project dominated by one very active developer who made the whole thing on his own. Unfortunately he did not prioritize getting other people on board, and he then suffered what seems to have been pretty severe health problems. Last thing we heard from him was a picture from a hospital bed. I hope he's alright.
Thankfully, as what he had made was open source, Kbin lives on in the form of Mbin. If you check my domain you'll see I'm still on a site called "kbin.earth" rather than mbin - this is why.
PieFed's developer is better at taking other developers onboard. If you check out !piefed_meta@piefed.social you'll see monthly development updates. The head developer (Rimu) runs the show, but seven other people contributed last month alone.
If Rimu decides to quit, other people can and will take over as long as there's an interest. PieFed has the added advantage here of being written in Python, which is a language many people know.
So it should be pretty robust, all in all.
As for the future, PieFed just now launched app support. I guess one thing to look out for is the emergence of alternative user interfaces.
Developments are happening fast and the developers are quite creative. It's fun to follow. :)
I think solutions to this is of a very individual nature - it's hard to imagine a universal solution.
But it seems your addiction might be to beer more than to alcohol itself, for now at least. And (some) alcohol free beer has gotten really good.
So my suggestion is this: Next time beer is on sale, instead of buying a six pack match the value in buying alcohol free beer. When you're back home you can still pop a cold one, it still feels like a nice reward, and you don't feel bad after. And you don't run the risk of developing an addiction to alcohol.
I never had a drinking problem, but I try to always keep alcohol free beer in the fridge these days just because I think it's a nice treat after a day of work or whenever.
The minimum age for Snapchat is 13. The direct mesaaging part of it allows for fun and harmless messages between friends. I think allowing her to use it if she's 13+ is reasonable.
What you could do is to ask her not to allow friend requests or messages from anyone who are not her friends, not to use the AI assistant (which can't be disabled), and to not use it to consume content from influencers (which is in a separate tab to the right). You cannot really police this, but it's not the end of the world if she sees the feed of some dumb influencer. Maybe while she's home you can show interest and use it together with her.
Position data must of course also be disabled. Snapchat is a bit creepy.
The fediverse is always (somewhat) public, making it not inherently child friendly. Getting together with other parents to set up a Pixelfed instance to use in the friend group rather than to have them use Instagram is a cool idea, and allows parents to be admins and decide who can federate without taking control of the accounts of the kids. It might be a nice way for them to learn that whatever they do online is run by some person whom they decide to trust. And it could keep them off Instagram a little longer.
I don't really know the first thing about parenting though, just my thoughts. It's a tricky question.
And then you're on your phone, and typing two spaces at the end of each line is a mess because your keyboard insists you really want punctuation and a space. Because why would you end a sentence with two spaces. Gah.
It's the kind of pain that will always come with being the first mover. Every active community on Lemmy faced this hurdle at some point in history - it takes a little while to reach critical mass.
Engaging with small communities and encourageing people who are trying to make it happen is a huge help. In addition to manageing your own, of course. Thank you! :)
I don't see it on my Pixelfed instance. I'm not sure if that's because it's still on v0.12.4 (not the newest v0.12.5), or because it needs to be enabled by the admin. I also have no idea how it currently works.
People keep giving the advice of following hashtags. That might be good advice for really obscure ones where you're almost guaranteed to be interested in anything posted, but I think it's terrible advice generally.
Follow users, and hide their boosts or unfollow them if it turns out they make your feed less interesting.
Yeah, I personally don't believe in blacklisting specific words as a moderation policy in general.
I think it has served Lemmy well though - the automatic filtering of certain words might have deterred some deplorable people from settling down here. :)
I think the Lemmy devs included automatic removal of some words on the platform, but it can be disabled by instance admins. It caused some funny problems in the early days of Lemmy, as banned words could sometimes appear in completely harmless settings/inside other words. Not sure what has happened since or on which instances it's currently enabled.
In either case I maintain that there's a difference between free speech (cool) and hate speech (not cool).
Leasing it to a farmer seems like the obvious choice. I'm not sure digital nomads would be all that interested in working in the middle of a field.
I'd love to see land like this returning to nature with native vegetation, but that would take a really long time and doesn't come with an obvious path to making a profit. Unless you sell it to developers for a higher price in a few years, of course.
They are also very open that this is an early beta, so I'm sure things are still subject to change. But getting the handles right as soon as possible should probably be a priority.
I'm not sure what would be best with regards to the different journalists. I guess people often want to follow topics or sites rather than individual authours. I guess each post could be posted to a main site and then automatically boosted by relevant sub-users such as individual journalists and specific topics.
I don't know anything about its history on Lemmy and I haven't really seen it discussed online at all. I guess I live under a rock.
The one place I have been exposed to it is in this amazing write-up, which I encountered via Mastodon some time ago. For me it provided a perfect introduction to the argument, and gave me a lot to think about even though I am by no means ignorant to feminism and my position as a man in society.
Highly recommend the read, both to men and women. It's extremely well written.
Accountability is a bet on a stable routine. You'll go to work, earn money, go home, spend money. A lot of people are happy with this.
Languages could take you many directions, with endless opportunities to climb into various international organizations and take on a broad range of tasks. If you're willing to work hard, learn other skills, and move around, you could have a very interesting life. If you want to stay where you are, options are likely to be more limited.
Physiotherapy offers maybe a middle ground. You won't climb as much, but there's work, and you can move around if you want to, even though work will not require it. You can have a routine in life, but one that is maybe easier to break free from if you want to.
As you like the idea of a stable monotonous office job,maybe accounting is perfect for you. Personally I need something that pushes me around a bit - I'm terrified of staying in one place far too long.
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There is always a chance of open source projects dying off, but if there's an active user base who enjoy the software it will usually not die easy.
Mbin is a good example of this. It started out as Kbin, which was a project dominated by one very active developer who made the whole thing on his own. Unfortunately he did not prioritize getting other people on board, and he then suffered what seems to have been pretty severe health problems. Last thing we heard from him was a picture from a hospital bed. I hope he's alright.
Thankfully, as what he had made was open source, Kbin lives on in the form of Mbin. If you check my domain you'll see I'm still on a site called "kbin.earth" rather than mbin - this is why.
PieFed's developer is better at taking other developers onboard. If you check out !piefed_meta@piefed.social you'll see monthly development updates. The head developer (Rimu) runs the show, but seven other people contributed last month alone.
If Rimu decides to quit, other people can and will take over as long as there's an interest. PieFed has the added advantage here of being written in Python, which is a language many people know.
So it should be pretty robust, all in all.
As for the future, PieFed just now launched app support. I guess one thing to look out for is the emergence of alternative user interfaces.
Developments are happening fast and the developers are quite creative. It's fun to follow. :)