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Yeah, but i don't think these are meaningful differences.

There is awesome-lemmy and the lemmy-apps megathread, I don't think there is a need to duplicate efforts.

If you want to just make money, yeah it's probably not a really good investment, what i am hoping will happen is that people that really care about creating the type of products purism make will get voting rights and help manage the company better, maybe even create a non profit that will slowly buy the company and manage it (something like how the green day packers was bought by a non profit).

it's a very hard goal, i am even surprised they made it this far, but just complaining is probably not going to really help make a true Linux phone a reality.

Where there is some important design decision that the project leaders don't want to change.

Honestly i don't think these are good enough reasons to create a new project, there are other open source reddit alternatives and non of them toke off, it's hard to build a project like that and having NLNET funding might have made it seem easier then it is.

Forking might have been a better options, or just developing a sever addon API so you could create plugins like on wordpress or discourse.

I tend to believe competition is good but in this case it seems like it will just fragment the already limited resources of the fediverse.

I warned someone that the project he started probably won't replace an existing popular project and eventually he seems to have abandon it, he could have spend that time improving the existing project.

I realize this is not feel good advice and i could be wrong, but i felt like i should say it.

This should not be surprising at this point that a lot of users prefer the wayland session, gamingonlinux survey shows that wayland adoption is consistently increasing (while X11 usage declines).

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).

I had some issues that happened on debian and not on firefox nix package, maybe debian packaging is not great and this can help improve it.

Have you seen gdevelop? reportedly it does need programming skills.

I tried a few games that are considered classics and didn't notice any performance problems, maybe open an issue with a test case?

GNOME once fought off a patent lawsuit, Maybe they could have partnered with a non profit related to FOSS that could have done the "heavy lifting".

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.

There should be lots of different, human-scale alternative experiences on the internet that offer up home-cooked, locally-grown, ethically-sourced, code-to-table alternatives to the factory-farmed junk food of the internet. And they should be weird.

The junk food analogy is really good i think, There was already research showing people who read newspapers are more informed then facebook users iirc, Open source platforms should develop to give users higher content quality and eventually validate those design using scientific research (kinda like research on the Mediterranean diet). I think giving users better platforms that enable finding and prioritizing high quality content will lead to a better probability of achieving certain goals (better employment, better financial state, healthier eating, better mental health etc).

Peertube as far as i can tell does not have a flagship instance, and seems to be doing fairly well, venera.social works better for me then another instance i tried which had random log offs and seems fairly popular.

Seems like it is already possible, after clicking "permissions" when making a post it shows:

This post will be shown only to the people in the first box, to the exception of the people mentioned in the second box. It won't appear anywhere publicly.Start typing the name of a contact or a circle to show a filtered list. You can also mention the special circles "Followers" and "Mutuals".

Link returns "This site can’t be reachedThe webpage at https://files.catbox.moe/8g7agm.mp4 might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.".

Do you have a github or codeberg link?

Maybe we should add it to awesome-lemmy?.

I’ve noticed this quite a bit among people I talk to and honestly just doesn’t help move the conversation anywhere meaningful.

What do you expect? If you have a way to improve the fediverse then just start a project or at least make a suggestion (although i doubt that's helpful).

Having something like an open source version of good judgement open might make things more interesting, at least it will be possible to detect "superforcaster" and direct people attention to them.

This means that if someone wants to create a window manager, they have to implement a whole compositor first. So instead of writing window manager code, which is what the developer is probably the most interested in, they are spending most of their time implementing the compositor.

wlroots has existed for almost 7 years and this misconception is still repeated.

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.

There is a fair bit of research on what makes people good at predicting, see the good judgement project, in particular there is this article:

Participants were above average in intelligence and political knowledge relative to the general population. Individual differences in performance emerged, and forecasting skills were surprisingly consistent over time. Key predictors were (a) dispositional variables of cognitive ability, political knowledge, and open-mindedness; (b) situational variables of training in probabilistic reasoning and participation in collaborative teams that shared information and discussed rationales (Mellers, Ungar, et al., 2014); and (c) behavioral variables of deliberation time and frequency of belief updating. We developed a profile of the best forecasters; they were better at inductive reasoning, pattern detection, cognitive flexibility, and open-mindedness. They had greater understanding of geopolitics, training in probabilistic reasoning, and opportunities to succeed in cognitively enriched team environments. Last but not least, they viewed forecasting as a skill that required deliberate practice, sustained effort, and constant monitoring of current affairs.

TL;DR: speculating is fun but you should also look at the facts

I don't think proprietary social media is going to collapse , mark zuckerberg got a perfact SAT score, Thinking he won't notice his platform will degrade in quality is IMO wishful thinking.