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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.

4mo ago

Redot Engine LTS 26.1 is now stable, includes enhancements and fixes
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wiki_me @lemmy.ml 4mo ago
They have a explanation here. they claim part of the problem was banning people who are harmless and not homophobes (they show at least one comment ).

4mo ago

A curated list of awesome FOSS games

Maybe it is better to avoid duplication of effort and contribute to OSGL.

You just need to add a "mature" tag to it and a option to filter by it. contributing to it is easy as far as i can tell.

4mo ago

[Help Design Lemmy] Joinlemmy website and New User Onboarding

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wiki_me @lemmy.ml 4mo ago

The website is already linking to google play store and apple store. right now apps that are purely web don't have a platform to read reviews on . plus neodb lib.reviews are open source although they might not yet be ready for the task yet.

Besides Lemmy mainly gets promoted by word of mouth (eg people recommending it on Reddit)

I doubt that, any data? similarweb shows the top referring site for now is openalternative.co (although at least one of the referring sites mentioned doesn't seem to make sense for me ).

If people want to review Lemmy communities, it would make more sense to make a Lemmy community for that purpose.

I think people would want to see average ratings. reading a community page means you only read 1-3 reviews and that sample size is too small and potentially biased. you could just run into people who hate a instance for some particular reason (and it's not hard for me to think of reasons like that).

4mo ago

[Help Design Lemmy] Joinlemmy website and New User Onboarding

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wiki_me @lemmy.ml 4mo ago

Two ideas i like:

linking to a bunch of platforms that have reviews of lemmy, fynd does this:

A neodb instance (but maybe another platform would do) where you can read and write reviews about fediverse instances (but that would require at least one volunteer to moderate it).

4mo ago

What's your opinion on Tuta mail?

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wiki_me @lemmy.ml 4mo ago

It costs real world money to keep that data. tbf i don't think you would find a service that does not delete inactive accounts. iirc when i did a market survey to find a new email address basically all free providers didn't guarantee keeping your data if the account is free and inactive.

4mo ago

Lemmy Release v0.19.15 and Testing for 1.0

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wiki_me @lemmy.ml 4mo ago

Using custom libraries sounds like a problem that is easy to miss. sure the super diligent developer will be fine but its like saying there is no point in linters because people just don't read coding guidelines.

Looks like a few services already have a mechanism like i described in place. e.g. Kubernetes throws a "APIRemovedInNextReleaseInUse".

5mo ago

What principles you wish to see social networks (or the fediverse) adopt in their design?

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wiki_me @lemmy.ml 5mo ago

Allow people who fund the platform vote on features (that are pre approved ). who contribute more get more in return.

"time well spent". and maximizing the "average quality of content". maybe by allowing custom feeds. or feeds that are based only on the votes of trusted users. with governance models supporting how those feeds are managed like how KDE and GNOME nonprofits are managed. maybe vote on best post/comment of the day/week/year/decade with leaderboards for that.

Linus law of trail and error. allow people to easily extend the software .with plugins and ideally a store with reviews for addons like in firefox and chrome. making experimentation easier and safer (without risking adding a bad feature to all users of the software). vote on features implemented rating for example how satisfied you are on a scale of one to ten.

information over speculations . use A/B testing to see what works in practice. maybe use "counted statement" for example "this is useful" or "this is important" beyond lemmy and reddit upvotes and downvotes.

Right now a life changing post from world class expert and a funny cat picture with someone who spend too much time online are treated the same by the software. this should somehow change.

5mo ago

Lemmy Release v0.19.15 and Testing for 1.0

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wiki_me @lemmy.ml 5mo ago

We have lemmy apps that still aren’t supporting API changes added over a year ago. We even had one such case last week.

That sounds like something could be improve. is there some sort of warning mechanism in place?

Say when using a lemmy client. the client either specifies its a production build. or if its not then the lemmy server reports where deprecated API's are used.

5mo ago

Lemmy Release v0.19.15 and Testing for 1.0

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wiki_me @lemmy.ml 5mo ago

Not sure that is the correct approach. break frequently break often seems better (that's what PHP and java seem to do as far as i can tell, unlike python 3 which caused a lot of drama).

notify a API is deprecated. give some time for users to update to the new API (1 year?) and then remove it.

Of course after version 1.0 there might be less breakage so it won't be a be problem.

5mo ago

Introducing Taskpony!

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wiki_me @lemmy.ml 5mo ago

Why not provide a option to use an a desktop app?. maybe also add a flatpak. self hosting seems kinda complicated and i am not sure what are the benefits of that.

Also a demo instance would be nice.

6mo ago

Update 0.5.11 is out! New Taiga Biome and Laser Machines! - Cosmic Reach by FinalForEach

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wiki_me @lemmy.ml 6mo ago

Probably this. honestly after googling it does not seem open source.

6mo ago

Lemmy Release v0.19.14

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wiki_me @lemmy.ml 6mo ago

This isn't what i had in mind. i meant more like changing the line to something like:

We’d like to thank our many contributors and users of Lemmy for coding, translating, testing, donating money and helping find and fix bugs.

With "donating money" maybe replaced with "funding".

6mo ago

Lemmy Release v0.19.14

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wiki_me @lemmy.ml 6mo ago

I think liberapay has that feature.

6mo ago

Lemmy Release v0.19.14

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wiki_me @lemmy.ml 6mo ago

We’d like to thank our many contributors and users of Lemmy for coding, translating, testing, and helping find and fix bugs

I feel like people giving their hard earned money for lemmy also should get a show of appreciation.

6mo ago

Lemmy Development Update November 2025

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wiki_me @lemmy.ml 6mo ago

Why is it not a part of the project itself if you don't mind me asking? i would imagine plugins are for the more opinionated or experimental features.

6mo ago

Would you use this app?: 'Subscription' to FOSS

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wiki_me @lemmy.ml 6mo ago

Honestly if you are interested in working on this domain. something like "amazon for red hats" sounds like a better idea. where you are able to subscribe to a organisation and he can gather feedback on what work people want the most (features and bug fixes). but only people paying money are allowed to vote. with data on which organisation are growing in their revenue and number of subscribers which is another indicator (like liberapay view income history section). and of course ability to write reviews and give ratings but again only for paying customers so there will be no review bombing.

6mo ago

Building a Linux Phone

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wiki_me @lemmy.ml 6mo ago

Sounds reasonable. maybe take 3 months. spend about 30-50 hours working on this and see you can sustain the motivation to do this. then decide what to do next.

6mo ago

Would you use this app?: 'Subscription' to FOSS

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wiki_me @lemmy.ml 6mo ago

I wouldn't. id rather give it to some FOSS non profit that would allocate the resources intelligently tbh.

6mo ago

Building a Linux Phone

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wiki_me @lemmy.ml 6mo ago

Still, i try to act like an environmentalist and that means not buying stuff i don't need. also a big part of that money will go to funding manufacturing costs and the development of new products for the same product line. unlike a campaign where a larger share of the money will go to developing a phone (and some of the money will go to give a return on investment to the owner, which is something i am fine with as long as there is no non-profit that can do the same work better).

Also for the CEO or board of directors it will be harder or even impossible to deduce that this signals a interest in a FOSS friendly smartphone.

6mo ago

Building a Linux Phone

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wiki_me @lemmy.ml 6mo ago

Very Interesting. any ETA? will it have faster hardware like a faster CPU? will there be a fundraising campaign like kickstarter?