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[Question] Simple task management for small teams
  • I did have a look at this, right on their front page it says "focal board is now mattermost boards" or something, this one in particular really does look like part of a larger ecosystem. Even the github repo is being retired as it's being merged into mattermost server or something.

  • France’s browser-based website blocking proposal will set a disastrous precedent for the open internet
  • It's as though this proposal was dreamed up by someone who has never installed anything on their PC.

    Like are they going to block entire repositories? When you apt get install x from within france to they expect repositories to magically give you the french version?

  • [Question] Simple task management for small teams

    I'm part of a small team that collaborates on projects. There's up to 50 projects in the queue or in progress at a time, all projects are very similar to one another.

    We basically need some kind of task management platform with the following features:

    • tasks need to be grouped by project
    • we need to be able to discuss tasks
    • we need to be able to attach a few files (mostly screen shots) to discussions

    That's it really, but everything I've looked at seems to be either a kanban board which just doesn't work for us, or a small part of a larger project management / collaboration ecosystem which is kind of overwhelming.

    We're presently using Asana, but while it does what we need IMO it does it very poorly - better suited to teams working on fewer more variable projects.

    Of course I'd prefer self hosted & open source but that's not critically important.

    Any suggestions welcome!

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    Does anyone else hope the bulk of Reddit stays there?
  • You're right in a way, but I think you're applying a narrow definition of "opinion" when I think most people ITT are thinking about "behaviours".

    Sure, it's not great to exclude dissenting political opinions, the intolerance paradox being a notable exception. That said, I'm not here to discuss politics.

    Say for example that some users will do anything for fake internet points - post anything, say anything, there behaviour is guided by the pursuit of karma and building some kind of following. Other users will do anything for engagement, whatever it takes to get others to engage with them including trolling. I'm happy enough for these types of users to find more rewarding platforms elsewhere. Note that's different to excluding them, it's just being a part of a place that isn't fertile ground for their fixations.

  • Does anyone else hope the bulk of Reddit stays there?
  • This sounds fantastic to me.

    It's pretty much what happened on mastodon with the twitter-storm in November.

    Huge influx of new users, about a third hung around - but it was the third who were the most like-minded.

  • As Reddit Crushes Protests, Its User Traffic Returns to Normal
  • eventually it’ll run dry - because the contributors are leaving the site

    I somewhat disagree... you haven't considered the increased incentive for occasional posters to become more regular contributors as existing contributors leave.

    As the volume of contributions reduces, each contribution is more likely to garner engagement - those sweet sweet endorphins released when someone upvotes or otherwise engages with your post.

  • Why does Lemmy feel so fresh compared to Reddit?
  • I agree. If lemmy continues to grow, inevitably some servers will be shit, but I imagine there will be other non-federated or less-federated instances. beehaw has already started down that path.

    Trolls are generally looking for maximum carnage, so I imagine there's less incentive / reward posting somewhere like lemmy.

  • Lemmy 0.18 is ready for testing
  • I think this is something reddit users generally have a hard time grasping about lemmy, including myself.

    One of the fundamentals of the fediverse is that there will be communities with the same name on different instances. Users can subscribe to good ones and / unsubscribe from bad ones as they wish.

  • Mates, today without warning, the reddit royal navy attacked. I've been demoded by the admins.
  • This is happening all over reddit.

    Mods are posting all over the place saying "I have to bend over for the admins because if I don't they'll find someone else who will".

    You do you but honestly I find this a bit weird. As an unpaid volunteer you don't have to do anything. Just resign. Reddit's not about to die but it's best days are in the past. I wouldn't want to be a part of the future of reddit.

  • What's your top 5 SciFi/Fantasy Audiobooks?
  • They really are. For me they're the books by which all others are measured.

    I'm somewhat unsettled by book 4, heaven's river. I think the interesting concepts of the premise have been more or less exhausted in the first 3 books. I suspect that anything coming after will be more or less "things happening in that universe" rather than investigating that universe.

    I don't begrudge an author continuing a series - it's guaranteed success after all. But in the ideal sense it would've been nice if the first three books had have stood alone.

  • Linking to a post from any instance

    I'm just wondering if there's any strategy to link to a post in an instance agnostic kind of way.

    Take for example this post which originates in [email protected].

    If someone sent me that link but I did not have a lemmy.ml account, then I can read it but not participate.

    If I have an account at lemmy.world then it's not trivial to find that post on that instance. I can't just edit the url because the post ID is not the same. I'd have to navigate to lemmy.world/c/[email protected] and find the post from that feed. This might be possible for recent posts but becomes very difficult with any posts even a little stale.

    My understanding of "how lemmy works" is very naive, but I assume it's not possible to generate UUIDs for posts. That being the case you'd need separate lookup servers that maintain lists of urls for posts and can translate between them.

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    What is the Right Place for the SelfHosted Community?

    While I'm not interested in encouraging /r/selfhosted users to leave reddit, I thought it would be good to have some discussion around the possibilities for a selfhosted community on lemmy.

    It looks as though most users are washing up in [email protected], but this is but a temporary refuge in these troubled times. The single mod is not responsive, lemmy.ml is already struggling with load, and the background lemmy.ml community may not be right for us. If we set up shop here we're just going to have to move, probably sooner rather than later.

    So if we move, do we create our own instance or move to an existing one better aligned with our needs?

    Given that there don't seem to be any instances which are really ideal, the remaining advantages to choosing an existing instance is simply that we rely on someone else's infrastructure (and the associated time, skill, and responsibility). This is a significant advantage which makes this option tough to pass up, but the equally significant disadvantage is that we don't get our own place. It's like renting a room in a frat house rather than building our own mansion.

    The remaining option is to create our own instance. If we were to go this route, in my opinion it is critically important that the responsibility for this be shared amongst several people. This dramatically reduces the odds that someone loses interest, or lacks the resources to support the community long term. While I'm certain that everyone in this sub could spin up an instance, we all know that providing high availability to potentially thousands of users is not something to be undertaken on a whim. There's a significant risk to the community in allowing someone to take this on themselves.

    I think fosstodon (mastodon) with several admins is a good model of how something like this can work. I also think it would be a good idea to broaden the subject to FOSS rather than merely self hosting.

    So the questions are...

    Do you think we should create & support a community on an existing instance, or create our own instance?

    If an existing instance then which one?

    If a new instance then how would you like to see it operated?

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