If the developers do not distribute donations among all contributors

I understand completely. I’ve received a total of 400$ or so from open source bounties and other rewards, and would love to see a similar model in many more projects, including lemmy… and yet, please bear in mind that lemmy’s monthly income is currently only around 500 dollars (and that’s increased in the past couple months), excluding nlnet funding. The top two contributors have each added around 40 times more lines then the third to the project. Totaling all 140 independent contributors, they still fall more than 5x short of either of the main developers. My takeaway is that this site needs more funding.

Yes! The contributing guide mentions that there are plenty of other ways including design, translations, donations, and even just reporting issues you come across! Everything can be a huge help.

Not sure about chess, but !programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

Yes. The docs aren’t what I wish they were, but it’s here https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/contributors/04-api.html, and there already are client libraries for multiple languages

Theoretically yes. I remember when mastodon.social went down and I didn’t notice a thing… Well aside from the constant “guys guys guys mastodon.social is down so exciting” :)

Mastodon suffers from similar annoyances. I feel like this system could be improved, it’s pretty confusing for beginners. I support frontends rewriting links, I suppose (though I suppose there is the tricky issue of deciding what links point to the fedi. Maybe “!cats@midwest.social” should not be a link…)

This is amazing!

Lol

Can’t be real

No way

Never smoked but I despite the name and consider it a deal breaker

While not privacy focused per say, if you’re ok with a shared host uberspace is the best company I have found! Green, pay what you want, homegrown, German, private

1. No, and I don’t think anyone will
2. No, it will just be for stupid features as I understand it
3. No, because they shouldn’t. They make so much from donations as a charity

Not mentioned:

What will the money be for? Better donate 95% of prophits back to writers on MDN

The third issue is talking about XSS sooo

I mean technically tidal and deezer because they have the highest payouts (super shitty but much better than spotify)

resonate is the best option but it does not have much music yet

Evolving but backwards

brave is also run by a homopobic alt right guy so…

https://rentry.co/notbrave

More so, their mirroring from Gemini, not the other way around

Drew is going to be very mad…

I share your frustration however, and am happy you did this. Maybe he will eventually come around and laugh

I’m not a fediverse developer but as I understand it the activitypub spec identities people and communities by their domain, and does not define a way to mutate.

Translation: you would loose all your peers and your comments.

If lemmy.ml copied the databases to a new domain, then when websites start to peer again there would be duplicate comments, one from the old domain and one from the new domain.

Translation: it would require the cooperation of every instance to be clean

I’m not a fediverse developer again, this could be wrong

You can’t just change a federated domain like you can change from facebook.com to meta.com, it’s nearly impossible

You can’t just change a federated domain

Whaaaat!!! Reddit is always better then any other source, aside from the arch wiki and Wikipedia, both of which are… Guess what… Crowd sourced!

Someone said

Ad blockers are a self defense technology by nature

Add ads in small quantities to your website that respect me and my privacy and I might just whitelist you, but at this point the internet is unusable without AdBlock

Presearch

People should know about

https://marketplace.presearch.org

And make informed choices

Lemmy used .ml in it’s infancy, and it’s impossible to switch domain names now.

I can attest to the cons of .ml domains

• Corporate networks sometimes block them (like mine)
• Freenom is really sketchy
• Email providers block them
• Harms SEO (google will target less at people in us and more at people in wherever the hell .ml is from)

Freenom attempts to take your domains after you miss a reregistration or if they decide to, without emailing you.

You then need to buy the domain because you have linked to it everywhere

1. There is literally nothing better, discord is closed source, matrix is slow and buggy
2. It gets the job done with no fan fair
3. It self moderates, only people willing to jump through the hoops to talk constructivly will do so
4. Retro tech is fun

I’m keeping this cuz it’s fun and not a blatant support post but c/lemmy_support is probably better.

Please direct future tech support questions to c/lemmy_support, they are better equipped to help

I know that they are not, that’s why I said buzzword, not implementation

Just don’t selfhost email

Uhh freenode?

I know but the “metaverse” is very much a crypto topic, they connect the spec back to NFTs, etc.

Can we stop using crypto buzzwords to hype a platform?

Not positive about OBS, it’s mostly support in software I use

I’m not using wayland because I need to screenshare

All this does is make it harder for your contributors. I’m ok with it for my projects, but many are not. I have certainly skipped out on some drive by contributions because it would require the hassle of making an account.

Not been able to find a good registrar. Gandi is a fake shithole, all the other ones too. I decided if I couldn’t get ethical domains I would just get cheap ones, so cloudflare.

Stay tuned for names.sr.ht, they will charge 20$ a year to allow you to register unlimited domains with zero markup, and profit sustainably without data collection from that tiny subscription fee (plus tons of DevOps). They are waving the 20$ a year for people who can’t afford it without any questions, and the platform is open source.

NOTE: names.sr.ht has nothing, go directly to sr.ht to learn more about the platform

Re ethical hosting:

I’m impartial to uberspace, so many pluses!

• green energy
• German
• indie (some pages are roughly translated for ultimate homelyness!)
• Pay what you can afford
• Friendly to beginners, support staff doubles as sysadmins who do everything in their power to help you.

♥️ (Not sponsored, I hope it becomes obvious these are good services when you visit their respective homepages)

Yeah this, also consider that gitlab is not federated and people are not likely to make an account on your gitlab instance to contribute.

The same thing goes for discord, more people use it than matrix, and therfore you reach a larger audience

re @Echedenyan@lemmy.ml not sure what part you are talking about, I’m happy to shoot myself in the foot for my projects because I don’t expect much contributors nore feel a drive for a big star count