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ArtificialHoldings@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

There was a lot of energy around strategy when I joined in January (can you guess why? Lol). The limiting factor seems to be chosen participation. Lots of people have opinions, not many people want to organize their thoughts into, eg. an effective advertising campaign, a github pull request, or basically anything other than meaningless browsing.

Here were some threads in my message history I found insightful: lemmy.world/post/25512565 lemmy.world/post/25553607 lemmy.world/post/27824597

I’m not really skilled in anything relevant, so my strategy has been:

On mainstream social platforms, point out any hint of enshittification and follow up with a recommendation toward a specific Fediverse alternative.
Link directly to discussions or articles I found on Lemmy that I thought were worth sharing
Building partnerships in my existing communities with the corresponding Lemmy communities to encourage user flow

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JasSmith@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Lots of people have opinions, not many people want to organize their thoughts into, eg. an effective advertising campaign, a github pull request, or basically anything other than meaningless musing.

This is the nature of free work. Any donation of time is sparse and intermittent. People have bills to pay. The best and brightest want to be paid well for their time. This requires a business model of some kind, and monetising that work. This is antithetical to FOSS projects, and is the reason they will almost always be inferior to projects with large budgets with teams of UX designers. /obligatory COME AT ME BRO

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- ArtificialHoldings@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Ironically, I think Fediverse suffers from a high amount of tech expertise and not enough project managers, lol. Not enough people cracking the whip saying “users said x feels confusing, what can we do about it?” then establishing timelines and check-ins. Maybe instead of Lemmy devs saying, “we accept nearly every pull request,” they should say, “we want a project manager to help recruit volunteers on specific issues x, y, and z”.
  
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  - JasSmith@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    
    Ironically, I think Fediverse suffers from a high amount of tech expertise and not enough project managers, lol.
    
    I 1,000% agree. FOSS projects are dominated by skilled developers who have to work under the direction of managers in their day jobs and FUCKING HATE IT. They dream about breaking the shackles of idiotic managers who are suppressing their talent and creativity, so they work on FOSS projects. Only to learn that developers without clear direction is like herding angry cats at a Metallica concert. The end result is a patchwork of features each developer would personally like, but normal people hate.
    
    I am probably biased here because I am one of those managers. The reason we don’t work on FOSS projects is because 1) they don’t want us working on them, and 2) we fucking hate our jobs as-is, and don’t want to spend one more minute than necessary herding angry cats.
    
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