Like when it happens with FOSS, admins are starting to burn out, better to have at least two people working on a instance IMO (A bus factor of more then one).
You might get the same problem that exist in FOSS people won't get paid and quality will decline (like heartbleed etc), Also you want to allow big communities without splitting them which is bad UX.
You are basically asking people to work for free for you (no point in sugar coating it), and honestly if people want to volunteer there are more important goals , we should have full time people working on managing instance IMO .
I mean there are people who probably will not develop an addiction because of this (due to stuff like good self regulation skills), a lot of things can be addictive but also be good (like social media), maybe it is better to add features that help regulate behavior like a notification after a amount of time has passed set by the user (or just suggesting a link to a open source app that does this).
I actually made a bunch of feature requests, there are a few reddit enhancement suite features i wanted but what i want most is the ability to incrementally read the comments of a post by marking comments as read (really useful if there is a subject i am particularly interested in or is particularly meaningful).
They have a very long history of mismanaging money and wasting it on worthless projects, not to mention multi-million dollar executive salaries while laying off hundreds of workers and many other controversies.
I don't think you will find an organisation of that scale that doesn't have salaries for execs like this, You might not like it but that is an unavoidable reality, you can't run a business based of wishful thinking.
Some projects got dumped but at least they are taking risk and making new projects (which got us Rust, stack overlow survey favorite language from 2016 - 2023).
However bounty platforms dont work well for open source in my experience. At best the bounty for a given issue is a few hundred euros
Bounty source shows bounties for thousands of dollars, and it is a pretty bad platform, it does not even show the most funded issues, unlike rysolv which does.
But i think one of the biggest issues is that of a conversion rate, most users are simply not aware of that option (Or don't feel sufficiently motivated to do it), If there will be a link in the issue template and a link on the read me to the top funded issue and i think it will really make a big difference, most of thunderbird recent spike in revenue seems to be due to a higher conversation ratio.
If you are looking for something impactful , libretexts (A platform for open source text books) , and alovoa (website for dating and meeting friends) seems good
Update on lemmy finances (not including cryptocurrencies)
patreon: $1,591/month
liberapay: $374.22 per week (about 1609 per month)
open collective: $2082 (29/6/2023 -> 29/7/2023)
Assuming 63K active users , the per user monetization of 0.08 dollar per user (Reddit's revenue per monthly user is roughly $1.19).
Estimated developer salary for the two main developers is about 2600$, estimated median salary for developer in the US is about 10K a month.
For comparison firefish made about 1424$ ((29/6/2023 -> 29/7/2023) with an active users count of 11868 (or 8146 if you don't count calckey, which i think is important because they added a pop up asking for donation, but i don't know if that is after the name change) so that gives a per user monetization of 0.11 dollar per user ( or 0.17 not counting calckey).
But if someone will post it on a platform and some third party freelance developer will implement it to get the money you won't have a problem right?
The biggest advantage of bounties is that they give users a way to incentivize directly, people usually say to a developer "you are not your user" and developers might prioritized the wrong thing, a good bounty platform can create a market for contributions that will enable to estimate their worth, it also gives a bigger incentive to give money. Not saying it is the ultimate solution (which doesn't exist) but as part of a funding plan it can be very useful in the highly competitive world of software development.
I know bounty source was linked in the issue template before, I suggest linking to rysolv in the issue template now (there are reportedly serious problem with bounty source now), because lemmy has now 65K active users it should work a lot better then when it had 1k.
If you want a feature implemented, the best way is to do it yourself.
tbh i don't have the motivation to do more coding, And I am sure there are more like me (or people who just can't code), I think there is a reason why the best big open source projects have a variety of sources of fundings, It's hard to compete with closed source software.
There is an issue opened about this, I suggest posting a bounty on rysolv (or some other bounty platform if you think it is better), it might make the implementation faster.
Or maybe you are having a bit of a problem understanding people, 5 people upvoted so i guess my motives were understandable to them.
well ofcourse i can read about it on debian.
Some people might not know there is a list on the wiki of SBC.
are you suggesting to visit spezland???
I was never interested in "sticking it to the man", even if you want to disincentivize reddit for some maybe the benefits of contributing to the RISC-V ecosystem are more important (and lets be honest, It doesn't really "move the needle").
Of course if you want to buy some toy that might end up on "plastic island" that's a different problem.
lemmy-bot from awesome-lemmy