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6 yr. ago

I like FOSS (free and open source software). Have contributed bug reports and feature suggestions to open source projects that got accepted (e.g. the ability to block instances on lemmy). Check out my github if you're into that kind of stuff.

6d ago

What would be your opinion on a lemmy/piefed instance that's run like Athen democracy?
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wiki_me @lemmy.ml 6d ago
Also seems to be growing organically unlike the rest of mastodon . codeberg is also democratic and grows organically as indicated by donations.
There is some evidence this model could be beneficial. there is some research about the benefits of credit unions and housing cooperative which is also indirect evidence iirc.

2w ago

MAU vs UE

I run BT Free public charity https://btfree.org/

I suggest putting it on your about page. i personally try to limit my time trying to contribute to FOSS. seeing that someone is a actual contributor helps prioritize how to try to help. i assume other people have a similar approach.

maybe Mastodon has the most users (idk)

Probably

can they get them out to vote?

My assumption is that if someone is willing to pay and support FOSS he is going to be more thoughtful. There is a risk that just newer platform might not be well known yet so they will get less votes despite being superior. maybe have people give a score on a scale of 1-100 like the ACSI and if a platforms say have one percent of the votes and has the highest average it is selected. if this will gather interest and will go on for a few years different approaches could be tried. and you could do polls asking the community what to do . you could set up some kind of paywalled community, i think discord and patreon has that feature but maybe there is a open source alternative (mitra?).

Nice job growing your instance BTW.

2w ago

MAU vs UE

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wiki_me @lemmy.ml 2w ago

Similarweb reports a estimate of the total visits in a month. lemmy.world report says "520,592" total visits which is a lot (more then a website in my country i visit relatively frequently).

That of course does not indicate the quality of the interactions which is obviously important ( i still spend time on reddit, but the quality of interaction in youtube for example is better then reddit and even lemmy for me because it has actual experts in it TBH).

One way it is measured is by customer satisfaction, where for example for social media bluesky currently gets the highest score at least as measured by the ACSI. with pinterest and youtube in the second place. but the scores aren't that high (bluesky is at 82/100).

Other then that there are various awards, like the oscars or the emmy. Maybe we need a fediverse platform of the year award and fediverse instance of the year award. People could have to donate some money to vote so there won't be a risk of too many bots gaming it and the money could be used to fund the instance/platform or fund the marketing of it. but i don't know if enough people are interested in that.

4w ago

Lemmy instance post visibility rankings

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wiki_me @lemmy.ml 4w ago

I guess maybe set up a community on lemmy. have the client automatically make posts to it. or comments to a specific post?

Or maybe have a bot clients will send messages to?

Lemmy has a bunch of libraries for automation so that could be used to extract the information you need for the test.

Of course that probably makes it easier to feed fake data (e.g. if china wants to make lemmy.ml more popular).

4w ago

Lemmy instance post visibility rankings

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wiki_me @lemmy.ml 4w ago

Pretty sure you want to use the AGPL and not GPL.

The ideal IMO will be some kind of experiment (probably something you should opt in). give people feeds and have them be ranked on a 1-10 scale and see which is better and do a Statistical hypothesis test to make sure the differences are not due to luck.

4w ago

Closed‑source vs source‑available vs open‑source — which model makes the most sense for small tools?

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wiki_me @lemmy.ml 4w ago

That is also a product of many variables (including software quality). maybe time to go back to the drawing board.

4w ago

Closed‑source vs source‑available vs open‑source — which model makes the most sense for small tools?

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wiki_me @lemmy.ml 4w ago

For this project I’m mainly testing distribution models

What do you expect to learn from those so called tests? (no offence)

The big questions in closed vs open is that there are different scenarios :

for closed source -> less competitor -> more users -> more money -> more investment in the project -> better product.

for open source -> more users want to use it and contribute to it -> better software -> more users -> more potential for making money.

The problem is that for the outcomes you want to track (more money or better software). there are so many variable involved that influence those outcomes so it's hard to deduce that the license is improving the outcomes or making them worst.

1mo ago

GIMP rebranding as WLBR?

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wiki_me @lemmy.ml 1mo ago

It's another case of OSPNS - Open source projects names sucking .

1mo ago

Ibis 0.3.2 - Wikipedia Import, UI Translation and more

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wiki_me @lemmy.ml 1mo ago

You can register on ibis.wiki, open.ibis.wiki or other instances.

Correction, they are not listed as open to registration on fediverse.observer and they don't have a register button on the front page. unlike fedipedia which is opened.

Also some instances appear to be missing from fediverse observer (i see at least opentextbooksolutions.org not appearing). you could feed it manually which should work (i did it for opentextbooksolutions.org) but a automatic addition will be better. also a lot of the other instances listed on the page you linked appear dead.

2mo ago

What are some hidden gems of the fediverse?

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wiki_me @lemmy.ml 2mo ago

Not really, i did play around with it and added a few reviews and saw nothing like it.

2mo ago

What are some hidden gems of the fediverse?

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wiki_me @lemmy.ml 2mo ago

neodb has other stuff besides books (games , movies ,podcasts, music ) , also bookwyrm license isn't OSI approved which i don't like (not looking to start a holy war on this, form your own opinion).

Example instance.

2mo ago

GIMP 3.2.2 Released with Various Improvements and UI/UX Updates

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wiki_me @lemmy.ml 2mo ago

I don't use GIMP really but i feel like this "gimp sucks" thing you read on social media is just a good example of how social media can be overly negative.

Two review websites (g2 , capterra) have thousands of reviews and the average rating is pretty good , around 4.3-4.4 out of 5.

2mo ago

RTFM

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wiki_me @lemmy.ml 2mo ago

it’s just that it doesn’t work efficiently enough.

Yeah, but we live in a world of limited resources. in particular labor and specifically knowledgeable linux nerds willing to answers questions for free. If everyone will have that mindset there won't be a lot of time left to answer the difficult questions .

With that said i agree that occasionally if its done its probably no big deal, there is also linux 4 noobs for those who want to ask some questions to help getting started with linux.

3mo ago

PeerTube v8.1 is out!

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wiki_me @lemmy.ml 3mo ago

Active users and number of servers also recently reach all time high.

If you want to learn how to create a good open source project for the fediverse. i think peertube is the best role model for that.

3mo ago

Open Source, Incentives, and Why 'Monetize Later' Often Backfires

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wiki_me @lemmy.ml 3mo ago

TBH i think you're overthinking it, funding software development and running businesses like open source software development is often driven by self interest (even if it's not easy to accept) . Like in software development part of it is throwing stuff at the wall and seeing what sticks. So trying to transition to more closed model is expected (some of the projects you mentioned went back to being open source).

Sure i have my opinions about software licensing but for me open source is good enough. if something like that will happen and the software is good a fork will be made. That is a acceptable risk-reward calculation to me.

3mo ago

PeerTube-Browser

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wiki_me @lemmy.ml 3mo ago

I am considering applying for a grant to fund the development, but there may be complications, especially given that I am a Ukrainian citizen currently living in Ukraine. I am not yet sure what specific difficulties might arise.

Maybe contact framasoft, the creators of peertube. maybe they could help or even provide employment .

Therefore, as an alternative, I would consider fundraising directly from interested users and the community to support development. Since you mentioned fundraising, I would like to ask how you feel about having an option to financially support the project’s development

I recommend giving in a shot, while trying to use lemmy approach of having a good fundraising process with a pop up specifically . I actually tried to write a learning resource for funding open source so there is a lot to say about that. but you would still need a relatively large number of active users. Lemmy for example has around 37K monthly active users and earns around 3.6K a month. so around 10 active users per dollar. I looked at other fediverse platforms and i think it is one of the most effective fundraising processes when measured using active users per revenue ratio.

You could also just put ads in it and maybe a option to pay to remove them . openfront does this and still seems relatively popular. FOSS is nice but eating is better.

Would you personally consider becoming a financial contributor? If so, what monthly amount would you potentially be willing to contribute?

I am afraid i am not a very good case study. i am not really a peertube users and already spend a relatively large chunk of my time on FOSS so i don't want to invest in it too much.

Regarding your points about benchmarking the recommendation system and curator-based feeds, I am not entirely sure I understood what you meant. Could you please clarify?

Regarding elo ranking something like a page on the website where you are shown two pages with recommendations from two different recommendation systems and you would vote which page and system provided better recommendations . You could also just have one feed and see which recommendation system has a better viewed video to liked video ratio.

Regarding curation. some account invites a bunch of people to act as curators. then something like the most liked videos this group of people had in the last 24h or week get shown. something like that.

3mo ago

PeerTube-Browser

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wiki_me @lemmy.ml 3mo ago

If you are looking for free hosting, maybe checkout tuxfamily.

You could also put some links for donations (liberapay , open collective etc) and fundraise the money for better hosting outside of ukraine (and maybe some could go to ukraine government though taxation ). I saw a patreon but no mention that the donations could be used for better hosting which could motivate people.

If you don't want to deal with taxes, i think using some non profit could help with that (opencollective , Software Freedom Conservancy , spi etc ).

I would like to see some benchmarking of the recommendation system, maybe with a elo ranking like done for AI .

allowing feeds by teams of curators is an idea i would like to have explored (it could be benchmarked using surveys or elo).

This seems really good btw.

4mo ago

AOTTG2 2.07 | the COLOSSAL Update

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wiki_me @lemmy.ml 4mo ago

Why not link the source code from the website (or did i miss it?)

4mo ago

Piefed monthly user activity has increased by nearly 500 in 3 days.

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wiki_me @lemmy.ml 4mo ago

Which is not useful if those users are people who try out the platform and then abandon it, or worst bots for state actors.

4mo ago

Piefed monthly user activity has increased by nearly 500 in 3 days.

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wiki_me @lemmy.ml 4mo ago

Right now i don't see any movement in the amount of donations (patreon, liberapay). so i am not kinda skeptical this will end up being meaningful growth.