lesnake

joined 1 year ago
[–] lesnake 1 points 9 months ago

They probably removed gallery since fossify galery is on fdroid now

[–] lesnake 1 points 1 year ago

Not to forget the buit in popup showing the shortcuts, similar to which-key, but built in

[–] lesnake 5 points 1 year ago

Samsung phones just sucks.

Switched to fairphone and could root it without installing twrp, there was only one extra app and I could just disable the google apps and switch to foss ones.

[–] lesnake 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I assume you that awards are optional for each server.

How would you determine if awards are enabled? The server of the community or the server where the account was created?

[–] lesnake 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Basically yes, but I also assume the cost per users drops/stays the same

I think the next ppl joining are mostly teens who dont consider donating,but would consider occasionally buying something like awards

I doubt external subsidies can cover the missing donations.

Edit: Also I assume ppl in their early 20s are more likely to buy awards than donate.

[–] lesnake 2 points 1 year ago

The life is strange games. The great storys combined with the superpowers are an absolute blast!

[–] lesnake 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

lemmit.online mirrors subreddits.

Thoigh Hopefully we have enough original content in a few months so we dont have to mirror content anymore.

[–] lesnake 1 points 1 year ago

I think we should avoid paywalls as much as possible and if any, only add cosmetic purchases.

[–] lesnake 2 points 1 year ago

Free awards are the ones ones spammed on random posts so if awards are added, they should be paid only.

[–] lesnake 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I dont expect a decentralised platform to be profitable and also think donations are better than in-app purchases.

But I dont want big instances to suddenly turn off because they cant afford it anymore or the development being behind so much we loose users to missing features.

Looking at the donation pages of lemmy instances there are enough donations for now but it is good to have a plan B for in case we get flooded by users not willing to donate so this platform survives long term. That plan B should be as least Invasive as possible,so no ads,analytics or paywall. Thats why I suggested something that is completely cosmetic.

 

Fact is, the Lemmy ecosystem needs money to handle the growing server reqirements as more people migrate as well as the development cost of new features (I know Lemmy is OSS but the devs should still get some compensation for their effort).

Seeing how much some reddit users love awards so much that they cant stop giving money to Reddit to award posts protesting the api change, this could be a great way for users to voluntary support the ecosystem. It can be easily ignored by users not caring about them (clients could even add an option to hide them), but users liking the feature can go wild and this time the money goes to volunteers keeping this alive instead of greedy admins, power mods and investors.

Though there would be some big organization questions attached: attached:

  • Which server handles the payment? A centralized one, the one where the post was made or the one where the user giving the award account was created.
  • How will the money be shared between the Devs and the individual instances in a way that is fair but cant be abused easily.
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