Hail the victorious devs!

It’s a half-assed project for some high level designer at Google to claim impact.

I wish the UI were actually, meaningfully customizable, but alas…

They’ll say something like “can’t handle the scale”

You know it’s time to sleep when Lemmy goes German

Google Chat or whatever uses to be federated via XMPP, but then they slowly started making incompatibility changes. Due to it being such a dominant chatting service, the real federated versions died out.

Basically I’m saying it’s not worth it. If you want to support Threads or Blue Sky as a central front page to the Fediverse then go for it, but they don’t actually need your support.

Yes, it’s the “original” instance

Have you considered applying for a FUTO grant?

https://futo.org/grants/

I’ve donated plenty to Lemmy with crypto, and the article you linked addressed none of the reasons I use it (privacy, anyone?). So while it’s cool you’re passionately against crypto, I think Lemmy is getting more out of it than it’s lost

If the Lemmy admins adhered to everyone’s request to “stop doing X and I’ll donate”, they would end up with zero more donations because people will always give another reason for not donating

There are donors from both of their communities

The lemmy.ml instance costs like 30$/month to run. Your donation isn’t going to that; your donation is going to develop Lemmy itself

Lemmy default UI should seriously consider a daily donation goal, similar to old Reddit. Implement a backend API to fetch the daily amount needed and the current amount donated, and stick it on the right hand side by all the trending communities. As a stats nerd, this would seriously motivate me to donate more.

I think the community matters a lot more than the instance. Hexbear has a bunch of coping bubble communities but they keep posting the same low-quality comments, so that’s probably why the threshold of 20 comments is so high. Another example, I make posts to my own blog community [email protected], but there’s no subscribers so there’s never gonna be any comments.

Basically I’m saying you should do this same analysis across a sample of random communities ^^

Are you sure the donation beg isn’t customizable? I don’t see it on Lemmy.ml

I’ve previously worked in anti-scraping. There is a negative 0% chance the Lemmy devs have the resources to effectively do this without tanking the server for everyone else.

1. From a code architecture perspective, how close is Lemmy/ActivityPub to reaching its maximum capacity for posts/comments per second? Are there any ways to 10x the load ActivityPub can handle?
2. With Nicole in everyone’s DMs, what does the future of spam filtering look like on Lemmy?

You just get the occasional weirdo from a weirdo instance arguing otherwise

Happened to Lemmy 2 years ago, but there’s still more than enough of you ladies and gents to keep it as my only social media app :)

I ran a large open source project, and when we switched to Gitlab the number of contributors dropped like a rock. Despite linking to our Gitlab repo everywhere, people weren’t finding it on Google or GitHub search, and those who did weren’t interested in creating a second account.

We went from probably getting a new contributor every month to maybe getting a couple a year. It significantly slowed down progress.

Would lose a lot of visibility. Gotta pick your battles