one to provide an outlet for people’s unpleasant/destructive thoughts (sometimes voicing them will help temporarily quiet them if you are in acute distress).
That sounds like a problematic issue, reddit already has a problem with communities for support where "ppl who suck at X give advice to other people who suck at X). These types of communities might reinforce unhealthy attitudes, I suggest you at least link to sources that have at least trained volunteers (my country have those, and the US probably also has it), maybe also links to other resources like free online CBT/ACT therapy resources or books.
Might want to link to the good judgement project for resources on learning how to forecast
I was originally going to post it directly to this group, but for some reason whenever I tried it the message got stuck “pending” and removing the mention fixed it.
Can you try to reproduce this and maybe submit a bug here?
I think the best thing to do right now is to increase the active user count, then worry about conversion rate (basically percentage of users who contribute, which seems not good enough for lemmy)
e.g. fosstodon has about 42,934 MAU and makes about $3,236 (about 13 users per dollar).
for mastodon it’s 2706053 MAU and makes about $33,627 (about 80 users per dollar).
for lemmy it seems like it’s 7.6 users per dollar , but i think that could be higher because the donate button seems almost invisible.
If you work on open source your basically doing work for free, there is a limit to how much you can do.
You can put a message when posting an issue, saying the project is missing maintainers, and existing maintainers have limited time to work on the project.
Another option is to use something like rysolv, if people don’t want to put money to have the issue fixed (even money that will go to some nonprofit feeding hungry africans) it’s probably not that important. The issue getting the most money indicates it is at least somewhat important.
The biggest difference between Mastodon and Twitter is that there is no “algorithmic boosting” of any kind – there is no manipulation of your natural newsfeed. Because Mastodon doesn’t boost for engagement, there tend to be a lot fewer hostile arguments, conspiracy theories, and celebrity fawning.
On the other hand it is a lot harder to find interesting content, even when compared to something even moderately “algorithmic” like lemmy.
There are already open source search engines , I am worried this is just too much fragmentation , I think somehow having more collaboration would be useful (starting a non profit with a formal governance model where you can solve disputes could help).
I read the article, flakes sound like an interesting solution that could make it a lot easier to contribute to open source projects (which reportedly often causes an increase in contributions).
With that said, nix-channel still seems like a simpler (by simpler i mean easier to learn and use) at least for simple use case of replacing flatpak , I still don’t know how to replace nix-channel with it, I am not really trying hard but the bottom line it is hard to compete with the ease of use/learning of just doing:
nix-channel --add some_channel nix-channel --update
I think what the fediverse need is a organisation for standardization with a good governance model, something like the C++ foundation or the XMPP/Matrix.org Foundation , I don’t know if something like that exists. Maybe also make a trademark and enforce it using a test suite like in the RISC-V foundation or Java.