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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is a filter for muting Lemmy 'power users' possible?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you can program you can probably create an instance and then a moderation bot that bans people with more then X comments or Y posts a day. maybe that would increase the average quality of content. sounds like an interesting experiment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A little essay I wrote about "mods are power tripping"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I use to use old forums, i don’t think the fediverse is worst then those old systems.

  I think you could just ask a one time fee when registering or a monthly fee if you want to reduce moderators burnout or increase professionalization (in the best possible sense). maybe even just have the money used and publicly donated to some non profit (or stuff like funding lemmy development). maybe having a place where people know everyone donated to achieve some worthy goal will increase the trust between people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sub.club aims to fund the fediverse via premium feeds | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Some types of content might take days to research or work on and might not have the audience to allow monetization by ads . mitra exists for those types of things and is open source unlike this project (it seems).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flohmarkt is a Fediverse Marketplace⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A standard name for a open source project \s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spreading of the 100 biggest Lemmy communities⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Active users is the standard metric used to check how much a service is used (at least as far as i know. its what i see when i look at stuff published for investors).

  hexbar is on the sixth place in term of number of active users with 1.8K , lemmy.world is 18K (enable the “active users” column and sort by it to see the full list)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨600 more active users in the last few days, from 47225 to 42827 in two days⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  probably the best (or least worst) indication of that is sorting issues by “thumbs up” on github, see lemmy and lemmy-ui. I think having a survey among donors (like godot had on patreon) is a better indicator.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨600 more active users in the last few days, from 47225 to 42827 in two days⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At this point i think piefed feels better with it’s ability to subscribe to posts and comments and incrementally read stuff, and also the wiki system . mbin reportedly has multireddits but i played with it and could not figure out how to enable it. but piefed still didn’t have a beta release.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨600 more active users in the last few days, from 47225 to 42827 in two days⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It is lower from where it was in june (48.472) and the data seem to indicate a negative trajectory , also lemmy donations seem to be the lowest i remember them to be.

  So i would not get too confident, the project IMO needs to focus on highly requested killer features. My impression they focusing too much on technical issues that don’t seem to be really important in a way that reminds me of the infamous The CADT Model rant of Jamie Zawinski. Do we really need to do a UI rewrite?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you want to have in a Lemmy instance?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Having some sort of democratic non profit behind it like codeberg which seem to be doing really well (or like a cooperative bank), anyone can be a member as long as he pays fees that help projects for the instance (which could include paying bounties or freelancers for lemmy feature development). You would have a election where you vote for a board of directors or even just one “instance leader” or something like that and he or they decide what to fund or what mods to appoint or impeach. You could copy codeberg bylaws and it might actually work.

  You could argue just letting basically average people elect management would lead to incompetent management (plato made the same arguments, your in good company), but this model has it advantages and seems to work well . The American Association for the Advancement of Science uses this model and created one of the most well regarded science journal in the world (science)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why haven't we figured out monetisation for peertube?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There liberapay (patreon alternative) and mitra (patreon paywall alternative). there is also a peertube plugin.

  Other then that having something that can show ads on videos but with an option to disable ads with pay (something like youtube premium), could be useful,

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just had an idea that people smarter than me have probably had long before I heard of Lemmy.....but I don't see it implemented, so I'm sharing it anyways!!!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One way to limit exposure to negative news is a keyword filter, which I implemented 6 months ago, early on in the project: piefed.social/post/7576

  avoidance is generally considered harmful for mental health, what would be better is giving users the ability to curate their information diet, news sources should be trustworthy , display rational reasoning which might help users learn by observation (aka observational learning) , this will be helpful for mental health and mental fitness because rational thinking is associated with mental health.

  multireddits could help with that because instead of getting just news about ukraine/israel/sudan/iran from a general community, you could get it from communities specific to those conflicts , the people subscribing to these communities are probably more motivated to discuss it so they will generate more rational thinking (which is more effortful so it requires more motivation).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just had an idea that people smarter than me have probably had long before I heard of Lemmy.....but I don't see it implemented, so I'm sharing it anyways!!!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it the user-created part? The subscribing part?

  Yeah basically those parts, i guess , for example if i want a multireddit i want “news” without the politics and certain communities (e.g. business and “the police problem” i don’t want), i guess that’s a typical use case for average Joe, he wants news but not too much news. i think there is research showing too much news is bad for mental health and social media might cause radicalization (see a scientific systematic review of the subject)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just had an idea that people smarter than me have probably had long before I heard of Lemmy.....but I don't see it implemented, so I'm sharing it anyways!!!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  multireddits is the most requested issue on lemmy , any chance it will be implemented for piefed soon? . the ability to subscribe to posts and incrementally read them is really great so i hoping your project might be better at prioritizing and using feedback effectively. It could really attract more developers/donors/content creators which is good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just had an idea that people smarter than me have probably had long before I heard of Lemmy.....but I don't see it implemented, so I'm sharing it anyways!!!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How’s your project going? Are you finding any tradeoffs you made stand out as especially worthwhile or something you’d choose differently if you started over (perhaps something you’re planning to change)?

  bounty source is dead, polar and algora seem like good alternatives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Positive and Good News Only Instance⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is another case where multireddits will be helpful, having a “positive information” feed when you feel too negative. even having a “public” multireddit people can discover and subscribe to.

• New piefed feature , anyone can subscribe to any post or comment (piefed is a reddit and lemmy alternative)codeberg.org ↗
  Submitted ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ to ⁨fediverse@lemmy.world⁩ | ⁨9⁩ ⁨comments⁩
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Lemmy growing or shrinking?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Look at the decline of lutris in term of revenue (around 2020), it seems to be inversely correlated with the growth of competitor like heroic game launcher and playnite.

  What you mentioned is one possible scenario, but the negative one is that lemmy userbase will continue to decline and there will be less feedback/income/contributions to keep the project going, the resources spent on basic development on sublinks and piefed could be used to make lemmy even better and developing experimental addons and gathering feedback on this kind of experimentation (e.g. in the form of surveys).

  I am also not sure we are at a point where starting to experiment is the best option as features that seem to have more of a consensus are not yet implemented (e.g. multireddits, the issue with the most “thumbs up” on github).

  With that said lemmy did manage to overcome previous open source competitors, If i would have to estimate probabilities like in the good judgement project i would say there is a 40 percent chance lemmy would decline and a 60% chance it will maintain its resources or grow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Lemmy growing or shrinking?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As you can see from the graph support for measuring monthly active users was added fairly recently, so some servers might not be reporting it and in general 6m active users is a better metric, in that case that’s somewhere around 2.5 times bigger , pixelfed is around 63K 6M MAU and is also growing , two of these projects are comparable in size of use and manage to generate growth.

  Sometimes it is better to look at trends and not the current market share, because that might be the result of historical circumstances that are not related to how a project or business is managed, for example writefreely already had a strong open source competitor (wordpress) and lemmy basically got a free marketing campaign due to reddit API fiasco.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Lemmy growing or shrinking?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah it’s probably not doing great, compare lemmy active user count to that of writefreely , it does a lot better, even the number of servers is increasing, the number of other projects starting that compete with lemmy (piefed, sublinks) is also not a great sign .

  Not trying to belittle anyone, i just believe in the importance of negative feedback and defensive pessimism.

  On a more positive note, the amount of donations lemmy receive (which i think should correlate with high quality usage of the platform) has increased moderately (see november 2 numbers when they started posting the numbers with current numbers) .

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your complaints about Lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s missing a few features from RES, i opened issues about them , that should make using the platform a better experience. for example i would like to tag open source maintainers so i could prioritize helping them, or just people who contribute more to the community (that i can see i have given several upvotes to).

  Also tbh some people here sound like russian or iranians propagandists or bots , if somebody writes something completely unreasonable (like making a terror group sound like the “good guys”) I would like to tag him so i could know which submissions to examine more carefully.

  Also having something like a “superupvote” like in tildes.net where you can only give it once in a while (e.g. top post this hour/day/week/month/year/decade). Our information diet is very important, consuming content with great “mental nutrients” is a worthwhile goal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Review platforms for video games, movies, etc. that are non-centralized or at least open source and community driven?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can use KDE discover and GNOME software to read reviews , they use the same review database (ODRS), there is also flatstat.

  A decentralized option is librate which is still in development.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This shows nothing, probably some kind of glitch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A list of Wayland compositors using Smithay (A library for writing Wayland compositors written in Rust)⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There is this for wlroots based compositors.

• A list of Wayland compositors using Smithay (A library for writing Wayland compositors written in Rust)github.com ↗
  Submitted ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ to ⁨linux@programming.dev⁩ | ⁨2⁩ ⁨comments⁩