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wiki_me, 5 months ago

On top of what other said, the wayland project also maintains the wayland protocols repository which includes additional protocols that are approved by a “committee” that includes representatives from wayland protocol implementations (wlroots, kde , gnome , smithay etc). for example now they are working on color management.

There appears to be a consensus among people working on window manager implementations that X has to go and wayland is the future.

Wayland has technical benefits, if you want the nitty gritty details see this.

Basically X11 is bad IPC at this point.

Also be careful with what you read online, I see misinformation about it relatively often.

wiki_me, 5 months ago

It’s pitched as a open source operation system, yet the snap store is closed source and vendor locked, one of the reasons some of us use Liniux is because we prefer open source (and there are rational justifications for that).

Hate is a strong word, but there is legitimate criticism, I also think the closed source nature of snap led to the fact that it has no volunteers and that eventually caused malware to appear on the snap store multiple time, it never happened on flathub as far as i know.

Today for beginner i think opensuse and linux mint are better.

Regarding debian having old packages , i use nix but it is fairly immature, flathub should also work.

wiki_me, 5 months ago

There is a graph you can follow, just select the one language you are interested in.

You can also adjust which quarter of which year will be shown.

wiki_me, 5 months ago

Any plans to implement “multireddits”? it’s currently the issue with the most “thumbs up” on github.

I would like to have “multifeeds” for topics i find more “important”, cs career advice and information, open source, etc.

This is especially useful because activity seemed to be spread out among a lot of instances and communities.

wiki_me, 5 months ago

Related but i finished and really like drl.

But this does not seem open source, where is the source code?

wiki_me, 5 months ago

Any highlights?

wiki_me, 5 months ago

“rc” means release candidate, meaning they think it is ready so they want to test it but they don’t know if it is ready, so nobody knows for sure but it won’t be long probably.

wiki_me, 5 months ago

unfortunately other data is not encouraging , the number of servers is both down since the exodus and in the recent month.

I think the number of servers is a interesting metric to look on, it correlates with users who are tech savy and are early adopters, before the exodus the number of servers was growing consistently , despite the number of users mostly staying the same, That was IMO an indication of the relative quality of lemmy at the time and indeed it seemed to got the most benefits from the exodus out of all the reddit alternatives.

compare that with peertube which shows consistent growth in the number of servers (see this month, and long term), I think what makes them better then lemmy currently is that they currently seem better at prioritizing feature development by using a dedicated site.

Also the total donations have declined in the last month (from €3962 to €3,771 today), So i think we should try to not get overconfident and work to secure the future of lemmy or some other open source reddit alternative.

wiki_me, 5 months ago

Before the Reddit exodus, I don’t remember many active servers besides Lemmy.ml and Lemmygrad (there was Lemm.ee and Lemmy.ca but they both had like 3 posts a week). Hexbear wasn’t federated, and servers were mostly being desperately spun up in anticipation for a flood of users who would crash the network.

There were about 80 before the exodus (may 2023), compared to to 40 (may 2022) and 15 (may 2021), about double the servers every year which is good considering this is “word to mouth” growth, even older data shows a clear growth trend, my guess is that i and others didn’t really see them because they are some dude community, even today i think i will have a problem listing more then 5-10 lemmy servers.

wiki_me, 5 months ago

That said, Torvalds continued, “Rust has not really shown itself as the next great big thing. But I think during next year, we’ll actually be starting to integrate drivers and some even major subsystems that are starting to use it actively. So it’s one of those things that is going to take years before it’s a big part of the kernel. But it’s certainly shaping up to be one of those.”

I don’t know about that, languages which are based on standards (c++ , javascript, c) seem to have much better enduring popularity, i don’t want to see rust becoming less and less popular which will lead to less available developers (like what is happening with ruby).

wiki_me, 5 months ago

The Wikimedia Foundation’s amicus brief calls upon the Supreme Court to strike down laws passed in 2021 by Texas and Florida state legislatures. Texas House Bill 20 and Florida Senate Bill 7072 prohibit website operators from banning users or removing speech and content based on the viewpoints and opinions of the users in question.

That’s a terrible law, you could easy drown voices by spamming messages with trolling or any other type of low quality content.

wiki_me, 5 months ago

open hub defines the development activity as “Very High Activity”.

wiki_me, 5 months ago

There is also nur (nix user repositories) which i think is more like AUR.

wiki_me, 5 months ago

This bug still exists (using nix-channel without name causes errors, a basic feature IMO) so watch out.

Unfortunately nix still needs work on it’s UX.

wiki_me, 5 months ago

Linking to the source code from the main page could be helpful , itcould attract more contributors, and show the project is open source, some people tend to prefer open source projects.

Having an optional login and some sort of karma system like wusoup.com could also help making sure the discussions are relatively high quality, and you will get less people just sexually harassing.

wiki_me, 5 months ago

Repeatedly getting tagged by this bot sounds like it is a PITA.

Having a command you can send with a private message so it won’t tag you could be useful , something like :

dontTagMe: @wiki_me .

It’s also pretty confusing if you encounter a post the first time, having it write something like :

new lemmy post: ‘Moving media library to bigger HDD’ on community #Selfhosted by @rambos

(Replying in this thread will appear as a comment in the lemmy discussion.)

about this bot (link to a explanation)

Could be more understandable.

Regarding you saying on the read me you are not a rust developer A tutorial on youtube implies you can learn the basics in aboutt 3h, since your contribution gets reviewed by experienced developer that should be enough and you can learn more things on the fly (Assuming there are more things you want to contribute to on lemmy).

having a command where the moderators of a community can tweak the frequency of posting (or maybe even posting just the top post for day/week/month etc) could also be helpful

wiki_me, 5 months ago

This shouldn’t really make any difference. In lemmy it would appear as a normal reply notification once per thread.

Still an annoyance, i post on reddit and lemmy for years, to keep having to delete that reply for years to come could accumulate to a significant amount of time, and small segments of time wasted tend to add up

I’ll see if I can expand the bot, but I don’t want each reply to end up like a wall of text.

You could add the “about this bot” the line above it ( making a two lines message) but this could be cryptic and therefore off putting for new lemmy users (creating a bad impression of the platform).

That would defeat the purpose, as the discovery from mastodon would happen days/weeks/months after that thread was active.

When you reply the person you reply to still get notifications , lemmy “active” sort bumps posts when they get new comments (see docs) and anyway most of the time i assume people just read comments and don’t respond, and the idea is to make lemmy more discoverable so after that they could visit lemmy and participate more actively.

wiki_me, 6 months ago

Best you can do is accuse something of being open washing, or correct people by saying that it does not fit the OSI definition which is widely accepted (it’s based on debian guidelines) and the software is at best “partially open source”.

Having a github page with a list of problematic projects and licenses could be useful.

wiki_me, 5 months ago

That might be useful if someone will want to learn if a particular project is not really open source, and raise awareness to the issue of open washing, if it will get enough links it might appear on search results raising even more awareness to the issue.

You could always start it, ask for positive feed back saying it will motivate you and validate that the efforts you are doing are useful, you could later abandon it and someone else might take it and continue to maintaining it.

wiki_me, 6 months ago

I think “multireddits” can help with that (it’s the issue with the most “thumbs up” on the lemmy issue tracker) , You could have multireddits based on mood or importance (Sometimes i might want to read up about subject X, other times on subject Y).

wiki_me, 6 months ago

But the demand is high. There are lots of users, many in a corporate sense using my software to further progress their organization.

tbh there will always be demand for free work, these small libraries that people don’t support seem like free code to me that corporations can write themselves relatively easily.

There is a lot of challenges to this. And these are only the things I thought of. I’m sure in reality it’s even more complicated. That’s why I don’t think the moral reponsibility at the moment falls on these companies. There needs to be a system in place that handles the contributions from users and distributes them to projects and dependency projects.

There are plenty of options and case studies for how to do this, in particular tidelift (which was started by a legit open source contributor) is one option, people manage to raise money using open collective and offer incentive through patreon (vue.js is a good example).