But the demand is high. There are lots of users, many in a corporate sense using my software to further progress their organization.
tbh there will always be demand for free work, these small libraries that people don't support seem like free code to me that corporations can write themselves relatively easily.
There is a lot of challenges to this. And these are only the things I thought of. I’m sure in reality it’s even more complicated. That’s why I don’t think the moral reponsibility at the moment falls on these companies. There needs to be a system in place that handles the contributions from users and distributes them to projects and dependency projects.
There are plenty of options and case studies for how to do this, in particular tidelift (which was started by a legit open source contributor) is one option, people manage to raise money using open collective and offer incentive through patreon (vue.js is a good example).
No i am using lemmy.ml, there are still a few things that are better for power users, for example there is no support for multireddits despite it being the issue with the most "thumbs up" on the lemmy bug tracker, RES ability to not show comments that are "read" really helps with deep diving on a certain topic.
There is a certain amount of scientific evidence that shows that on average women are more fearful and have more anxiety then men (While having on average other positive traits more then men).
Allowing users to block users from certain instance might help with that.
You mentioned it being easier then wlroots, but wayfire and phoc reportedly act as high level abstractions on top of wlroots that could be used to make it easier to create window managers (wayfire author explicitly mentioned it), Maybe it will be good to create a comparison with these projects? or even divert your future efforts to one of them?
Theoretically yes, in practice a project gains reputation and it's managers gain skills and experience, so i fork isn't always migrated to easily and it might be harder to keep it going, look at reddit , having the source code didn't really help and despite lemmy being in development for years the reddit ecosystem (RES in particular) still has advantages that are important at least to me.
I have used friendica for a while, It's pretty good has not character limit and RSS support, what turned me off is that it kept logging me off and i had to keep reenter the username and password (but maybe that was an instance specific problem or is already fixed).
My advice if you want to study this, is to first spend at least one year working a tech job with that CS degree, and sock away as much cash as you can.
Also learning about financial Independence (FIRE) a vanguard (investment bank owned by customers) index fund will probably double your money every about ten years, maybe faster because there is evidence the stock market is becoming more efficient, 5 years will give you about 40 percent.
Yes, I do care about the politics of people not in the political space. I don’t think people harboring such lunatic views should be legitimized.
It's interesting that when when this type of hardline attitude goes against the bias of the left people will say it will just make people more radical.
Apparently in the US you can discriminate based on political opinions, in my country that is not true and i prefer it that way, People in FOSS should not discriminate based on political opinions, people should be able to handle criticism even if it is incorrect and try to have a rational discussion (harder then it sounds).
I am a bit old and i don't remember so much hate between political sides (there is research showing people don't really have an accurate picture of what the other side believes), i blame for profit media and for profit social media for that, i feel like people used to be better at having productive and civil discussions. it's like people became so sensitized they can't hear things they don't like. luckily lemmy is better as it shows both the upvotes and downvotes so you can see the expression of unpopular political opinions is at least partially appreciated (and probably why lemmy feels more normal to me then reddit).
Individuals must have critical social
media literacy to counteract the rising radicalization through social media. Individual users’ political interests are key factors
in their radicalization such as citizens losing faith in the government and political parties. Active rather than passive searchers
of violent radical material are more likely to engage in political violence.
tbh IMO i Don't think you could persuade them to do that, the whole make decentralized social media more decentralized is not something that will have significant value to them, would be better to have some volunteer led non profit with a governance model that has a decentralized power structure as the "default" option.
They’ve been completely dropping the ball for years. I used to donate regularly but have completely given up on this project. It’s a farce at this point.
Liberapay shows the number of donors has almost doubled in the last few months (look at "view income history"), so i hope it is an indication that they made good changes to the project management and the future will be better.
Maybe we can add individual pages to awesome-lemmy listing individual features that are interesting.
Another option is slant.co that enables listing pros and cons of software and voting on them and the software itself, I added a question here so feel free to add options , the website is closed source but currently i am not aware of a better open source option (maybe we can ask libRate to add this functionality).
tbh there will always be demand for free work, these small libraries that people don't support seem like free code to me that corporations can write themselves relatively easily.
There are plenty of options and case studies for how to do this, in particular tidelift (which was started by a legit open source contributor) is one option, people manage to raise money using open collective and offer incentive through patreon (vue.js is a good example).