Lemmy
Everything about Lemmy; bugs, gripes, praises, and advocacy.
For discussion about the lemmy.ml instance, go to [email protected].
Hello world! My first ~~Kenny~~ Lemmy comment! I have no idea what I'm doing :D all I know is I'm mad at hell and I'm not going to take it anymore! In regards to Reddit anyway hehe. I will kinda miss Reddit, but if Lemmy gets a good following I imagine it should be better than Reddit ever was π
i cant help but worry its going to go south as everything does once a critical mass is hit
Yeah but thatβll be like 10 years from now or something
everything does. planet earth itself will. best thing to do is enjoy it while we can and take any preventative measures we can
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Yep, fediverse observer reports monthly active users count has doubled in four days, no real change in revenue (money donated) it seems which is a shame. The conversion rate needs to improve IMO and it seems that the option to donate is not attracting the attention it deserves. I think lemmy needs more improvements so it will be able to retain a bigger chunk of the users that is exploring the platform, look at what happened to mastodon and the fediverse after the migration after elon musk buyout , According to the statistics almost half the users are gone.
its sort of depressing that they will rely on donations though. would be nice if there was some way for them to make money without gambling on random ppl
Fundraising when done well can be good, wikipedia (wikimedia foundation) made about 150M in 2021.
Having an instance that shows ads (even duckduckgo style ads that are privacy respecting) could be good (with funds going to development), maybe rysolv (or some other bounty site) could also provide revenue or getting paid for custom development or just paying a retainer so when need development a developer will be available.
Sponsorship (where you show the logo in the front page given a company clicks) like vue.js does it is also an option.
One problem with FOSS is that there isn't anything like a endowment , with enough money invested you theoretically could use the 4 percent rule and fund lemmy forever.
Yeah it works but Wikipedia is constantly threatening to close up because of lack of donations right? That's a huge fault that persists no matter how well done their fundraising campaign. I wonder are there examples of fundraising where they gather more than enough to foot the bills? Do they expand then like a business would or do they save that excess for next year? I have to assume they'd invest and grow it. Is Wikipedia or lemmy an example of FOSS though? It's not as simple as open sourced software once you put it on the web and build a business behind it. Maybe the bones of it was FOSS but we're passed that point now yeah? Obviously I have more questions than answers, just an interested layman. Cheers.
What's the best way to contribute? I used the Patreon link at the bottom of the join lemmy page.
Looking at it now https://www.patreon.com/dessalines is pretty lite on details.
And this is only the second day since the API changes were announced. I expect there will be lots of people coming over in the month of June, and probably another big influx on July first when Reddit apps shut down for real
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happy to be here. Is lemmy named after lemmings?
Look at the lil pancake
(No idea if image posts will federate to Lemmy but let's find out)
I see no pancake lol
@mordekaiq89 If you hit the little ActivityPub icon (the rainbow one) on my post, it should take you to my instance where you can see it.
Thatβs actually kinda a really nice feature of federation. Each instance kinda becomes its own image/video host (assuming your software supports it). Just have to actually use that data in the frontendβ¦
ohh, so lemmy accounts also connect with mastodon instances? (and now i see pancake)