I think the fediverse should take something from C++ playbook, it toke forever for the C++ 11 standard to be created but after the standard C++ foundation started getting significant funding which it used to fund work on standards the pace of publishing standards became a lot faster.

Did you see the link to mozilla addons website? (it’s on the side of the page) , just download it and i think it should be clear how to use it.

I would love an RSS reader that is FOSS for firefox for example

I use livemark.

The trend appears negative, see here , on a more positive notes the number of donations seems stable (when checking using the web archive).

Yeah that’s pretty much the point, but it’s a real world method to get work done , see the bounties here, it might be especially important if the developers make a mistake when prioritizing (which is expected because they are humans, if there are bugs in code there are bugs in priorities).

They say the developers told them not to used bounties, but i specifically remember one of the developers saying he will accept code requests made with bounties , although he did mentioned he thought they are not worth it and have disadvantages (which i disagree with it).

Also one of the problem he linked to is now resolved.

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).

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.

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.

Maybe if someone will offer paid management of this software, people could contact the artist and suggest it as an alternative.

I wonder if the ideal of advanced filtering works in practice with current open source social media platforms.

Come with me if you want to waste time

They are the only ones with any story about this now. I for one would rather wait until the investigation is done and we can understand what happened in that massacre. That being said, rape is a likely outcome.

times of israel is ranked “high” and made a similar report . (very difficult description ahead, consider if you want to read this stuff).

Two videos in particular have raised concerns of sexual assault against women, one of which shows a woman apparently bleeding into her shorts being taken out of a vehicle in Gaza; the woman is alive. The other video shows a woman stripped down to her underwear lying face down in a truck.

instagram page links to a page in hebrew that cites “love towards one another” .

Probably raped.

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/260-dead-at-israel-peace-festival-hamas-attack/

More than 260 bodies have been found at the site of a peace rave

toke me about 10 seconds to find this.

What do you like about it? what are it’s best qualities?

You can’t even log into your account if you’re banned, how are you supposed to appeal?

That’s actually reasonable criticism (mods might not list other ways to contact them), i don’t see an issue opened so why not open one?

Regarding the other stuff, Feel free to open an instance, but i doubt that people care about that stuff.

As it stands, I do not see a way to fix this situation without a hot and active ranking system that takes into account the number of users active in the particular community

lemmy equivalent of multireddits (which is the issue on github with the most “thumbs up”) could be useful here, i have multireddits that contain low frequency posting but i still use the front page for “regular stuff”.

I don’t think subscriber count is a useful metric, look here, subscriber count keeps growing but number of comments made decreased by a lot (apparently reddit was hit hard from the API changes).

I don’t know what you can do with that kind of data, but maybe doing the same thing for active users is better.