Lemmy Project Priorities Observations
I've raised my voice loudly on meta communities, github, and created new [email protected] and [email protected] communities.
I feel like the performance problems are being ignored for over 30 days when there are a half-dozen solutions that could be coded in 5 to 10 hours of labor by one person.
I've been developing client/server messaging apps professionally since 1984, and I firmly believe that Lemmy is currently suffering from a lack of testing by the developers and lack of concern for data loss. A basic e-mail MTA in 1993 would send a "did not deliver" message back to message sender, but Lemmy just drops delivery and there is no mention of this in the release notes//introduction on GitHub. I also find that the Lemmy developers do not like to "eat their own dog food" and actually use Lemmy's communities to discuss the ongoing development and priorities of Lemmy coding. They are not testing the code and sampling the data very much, and I am posting here, using Lemmy code, as part of my personal testing! I spent over 100 hours in June 2023 testing Lemmy technical problems, especially with performance and lost data delivery.
I'll toss it into this echo chamber.
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There are people with great social skills... but they aren't becoming leaders away from hate or exploitation of crowds. A social movement towards goodness is long overdue, but it doesn't seem to take hold.
Christianity in USA has degraded to be almost pure anti-science and out-group hate oriented. Sure, this was there all along since 1492 when it came to Americas from Europe. But it has become notably worse since 2012, and people don't seem alarmed that groups can be shifted that way... much like Germany in 1930.
There are no easy ways to measure these things, but there are warning signs when entire populations become motivated by hate and mocking.