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Update from Lemmy after the Reddit blackout (join-lemmy.org)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Gang, I'd never pay for reddit gold but I sure as h*ck will pay monthly to support lemmy. You all should too!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

thank you!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Thank you for doing this

[–] BitOneZero 4 points 2 years ago

Thank you for keeping everyone informed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (11 children)

On another topic, there are rumors circulating that we are fascists or supported genocide. These claims are completely false, and like most viral twitter threads, are coming from a single Mastodon user on a personal vendetta who didn’t provide any sources. Such slander doesn’t deserve any response and is best left ignored.

Previous discussion on the moderation policy on lemmy.ml including response from @[email protected] : Expressing concerns about moderation policy on lemmy.ml
Accusation of a Mastodon user (probably the one they are referring to): https://mstdn.social/@feditips/106835057054633379
Essays from @[email protected]: https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/socialism_faq.md

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

This is doxxing. People have different usernames for a reason.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Thank you for all your work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I setup a donation for $52 a year. Just doing my small part to keep this going because I've really been enjoying Lemmy so far! Keep up the great work.

[+] [email protected] -21 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Only a very small fraction of the 27000 new members are capable of developing the platform, and many (like me) don't donate directly. However, members might be more willing to donate AI or other IT resources in an 'indirect' way.

There are 27000 members with access to an AI, that can code (more or less). There are also developer agent architectures like 'smol-ai', and 'gpt engineer' etc, that works directly on a code base, that could assist with the development. (https://github.com/smol-ai/developer and https://github.com/AntonOsika/gpt-engineer)

An AI could run through the git requests and create a list of 'easy' non blocking features to develop/fix, and the members developer architecture could take on one of these issues and do a pull request. Another way is for Lemmy to host such an architecture, and let members donate 'AI prompts', or even API keys (when accounting is possible) for common development.

The tooling/workflow integration isn't quite there yet to be helpful now, and the chance of Lemmy devs getting time for this right now is null.

But how fast could Lemmy development get with 2-300 member AI's working 24/7 on bugs/features ? I'm not a developer, so I don't know how to set up such an AI assisted development workflow. But it could be done, and development speed of ALL open source projects in general would skyrocket with an open to join 'AI developer architecture'.

Hey, we could even have a global federated FOSS AI developer architecture, and people/smaller AI architectures with cool ideas for open projects could request global FOSS AI developer time for their idea/project. I'm sure someone is already working on something like this.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So with no knowledge of any development work as you state not being a developer you think that the best for Lemmy is that the creators should spend time that they already have very little of to setup some AI that will supposedly help them magically?

AI would require a lot of tunning to do anything remotely useful, instead of suggesting something out of complete ignorance, donate so that they could eventually employ more people to help.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

'you think that the best for Lemmy is that the creators should spend time'

? No, I specifically wrote the opposite. There's no need for you to be 'pissed of' at anything, but you seem to be very focused on a very small part of the suggestion and misses the point. The 2 AI developer systems i linked to are close to being able to handle small issues from a codebase, and are thus not far from being able to assist. How much is needed for a 'Lemmy' size I don't know and I don't care.

There are other ways of supporting than donating, and for other devs to help out in the above way. If you feel offended about the idea, then ..scram ??

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

and many (like me) don’t donate directly

But you pay for API keys?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago

Yes, that would be 'indirectly' just as we pay for electricity and hardware given to Boink or similar distributed computing, but psychologically it can make a huge difference. However, the exact method is imho less important than creating an AI workflow to assist in development of Lemmy et al. API keys can also come free trials, from private servers using https://localai.io/ or similar services with an API/Key.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

You're going to learn very quickly that the anti-corporate world of fediverse despises nfts, ai, crypto, and everything aligned with the silicon valley techbro-brained idiots that have taken over the existing mainstream internet. It's going to highlight to you what a bubble reddit is for one specific opinion on most topics.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks for friendly advice. However, I'm super anti-corporate, anti-capitalist, anti-Elon, anti-mainstream, anti all crypto etc. and I am trying to develop a FOSS AI architecture. A few of the many architectures I've been looking at (linked) could very soon be used to assist under-manned FOSS projects like Lemmy and all the other undermanned projects. Why that is 'bad', I have no clue.

Tbh, I was tired of the toxic Reddit-bubble and US exceptionalist attitude long before the strike, and hoped for a more normal behavior here. I hoped the negative reactions was from the influx of old redditors still with a shitty Reddit attitude, and not ordinary Lemmings. That's unfortunately the opposite of your theory. It would be sad for me if Lemmy members reacts as aggressively as this on a regular basis. We'll see..

Thanks tho, appreciate it..

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