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wiki_me, 4 months ago

Honestly i don’t think these are good enough reasons to create a new project, there are other open source reddit alternatives and non of them toke off, it’s hard to build a project like that and having NLNET funding might have made it seem easier then it is.

Forking might have been a better options, or just developing a sever addon API so you could create plugins like on wordpress or discourse.

I tend to believe competition is good but in this case it seems like it will just fragment the already limited resources of the fediverse.

I warned someone that the project he started probably won’t replace an existing popular project and eventually he seems to have abandon it, he could have spend that time improving the existing project.

I realize this is not feel good advice and i could be wrong, but i felt like i should say it.

wiki_me, 4 months ago

Where there is some important design decision that the project leaders don’t want to change.

wiki_me, 4 months ago

This should not be surprising at this point that a lot of users prefer the wayland session, gamingonlinux survey shows that wayland adoption is consistently increasing (while X11 usage declines).

wiki_me, 4 months ago

Any highlights from the study?

It seems mostly like “lemmy is now moderately liked”.

Companies use customer satisfaction as a way to estimate their future potential (like apple was cited as a company with a relatively high customer satisfaction, and indeed it’s stock and profits later seemed to surge).

Would be interesting to see something like that for lemmy (you can replace “customer” with “user” for this discussion it’s basically the same thing). comparing 1-10 rating of lemmy vs reddit or other platforms (but sample it well, to avoid review bombing), You can compare reddit google play rating with those of jerboa , but that has it own problems (for example a lot of people don’t use a mobile client i believe).

wiki_me, 4 months ago

Doesn’t seem open source, i don’t see i link to something like github or a license.

wiki_me, 4 months ago

That does not mean it fits the open source definition , that you can change it and even sell it

Unclear licensing can be a problem , see for example how cataclysm dda had to remove a tileset due to it.

wiki_me, 4 months ago

I had some issues that happened on debian and not on firefox nix package, maybe debian packaging is not great and this can help improve it.

wiki_me, 4 months ago

Codeberg and other alternatives are used by 2 people, if not more

It last reported it has about 400 members (people who pay money) , liberapay shows about 190 supports (and the number is slowly but consistently growing for years).

This is very frustrating if you want to report just one issue or make one pull request. Self-hosted repos are even worse.

It takes about a minute to make an account and store it in a password manager, it might be better because a higher threshold for contributing might mean a higher average quality of contributions.

wiki_me, 4 months ago

GNOME once fought off a patent lawsuit, Maybe they could have partnered with a non profit related to FOSS that could have done the “heavy lifting”.

wiki_me, 5 months ago

There should be lots of different, human-scale alternative experiences on the internet that offer up home-cooked, locally-grown, ethically-sourced, code-to-table alternatives to the factory-farmed junk food of the internet. And they should be weird.

The junk food analogy is really good i think, There was already research showing people who read newspapers are more informed then facebook users iirc, Open source platforms should develop to give users higher content quality and eventually validate those design using scientific research (kinda like research on the Mediterranean diet). I think giving users better platforms that enable finding and prioritizing high quality content will lead to a better probability of achieving certain goals (better employment, better financial state, healthier eating, better mental health etc).