Whats interesting is that both income , profits and the stock have been growing well for years, maybe they are just monetizing more aggressively because they can't compete on product quality (unlike other markets that are still evolving, AI and Cloud). not a ton of stuff to improve in operation systems it seems.
One way to limit exposure to negative news is a keyword filter, which I implemented 6 months ago, early on in the project: https://piefed.social/post/7576
avoidance is generally considered harmful for mental health, what would be better is giving users the ability to curate their information diet, news sources should be trustworthy , display rational reasoning which might help users learn by observation (aka observational learning) , this will be helpful for mental health and mental fitness because rational thinking is associated with mental health.
multireddits could help with that because instead of getting just news about ukraine/israel/sudan/iran from a general community, you could get it from communities specific to those conflicts , the people subscribing to these communities are probably more motivated to discuss it so they will generate more rational thinking (which is more effortful so it requires more motivation).
/r/relationship_advice is leaking.
<Linux from scratch joke>
Is it the user-created part? The subscribing part?
Yeah basically those parts, i guess , for example if i want a multireddit i want "news" without the politics and certain communities (e.g. business and "the police problem" i don't want), i guess that's a typical use case for average Joe, he wants news but not too much news. i think there is research showing too much news is bad for mental health and social media might cause radicalization (see a scientific systematic review of the subject)
multireddits is the most requested issue on lemmy , any chance it will be implemented for piefed soon? . the ability to subscribe to posts and incrementally read them is really great so i hoping your project might be better at prioritizing and using feedback effectively. It could really attract more developers/donors/content creators which is good.
So it will have good mainline linux support?
I mostly donate w Bitcoin
Aren't there better coins with better privacy (which might be a helpful property , because being known as a generous person might make you a attractive target to charity scams attempts) and also much lower fees (monero? nano? , which reportedly has no fees) and faster transactions times? (if we are using digital currencies, we might as well try to support the best project by using it).
Lets be realistic, companies won't want to make it open source because they think it will lead to a loss of revenue (there is a mindset of "never work for free"). openttd basically led to loss of revenue because now that there is a open source version (even the assets got re-implemented) people that are playing that are not playing proprietary games (including the proprietary original version).
You might argue there is no significant loss, but i don't think you can prove that especially to the people who own the companies which include pension fund managers who only care about the profits because if they will underperform people will go to some other pension fund or invest in other stuff like real estate.
A source available license is a more realistic option , You get the source code and permission to improve it but still have to pay something to run the game.
Purism (creator of FOSS friendly phones and hardware) 2023 financial report , income grew by 350% in three years and the company is profitable
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
Purism (creator of FOSS friendly phones and hardware) 2023 financial report , income grew by 350% in three years and the company is profitable
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
Purism (creator of FOSS friendly phones and hardware) 2023 financial report , income grew by 350% in three years and the company is profitable
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
Purism (creator of FOSS friendly phones and hardware) 2023 financial report , income grew by 350% in three years and the company is profitable
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
the monthly active users count didn't really seen such a drastic drop, seem like something disappointed lemmy most devoted supporters , i didn't notice a drop so big in such a short amount of time. there was also an increase in users after the initial surge of users in july due to the API drama. so i think the cooling down is over.
openhub defines it as "moderately active".
might be worth mentioning the c910 core this SBC is based is open source.
It's good to see enhancement in moderations tools , there was a lot of feedback on that so i am happy this is being worked on.
With that said donations seem at a all time low (3,524), lower then when the new website started reporting donations ($3,962). on june 2 it was €4,010 , could the lemmy.ml censorship drama be related to this? maybe there is a way to mitigate this event?
fediverse observer shows no growth (actually it shows a continual decline), could it be threads?
Some of them are paid , they get donation money , and also from the NLNET iirc (which is tax payer money iirc).
Anyway this isn't how you handle feedback , there is a reason wikipedia has a guideline called assume good faith , because if you are not assuming good faith you are probably assuming bad faith and that makes it difficult for an organisation to function for obvious reasons.
source available can allow a lot of things including modification of the source code (and in particular adding quality of life improvements and updating the code to run on modern platforms). Some restrictions like not allowing selling or even not allowing competition (for example allowing the game engine to run only the original game , or disallowing the removal of monetization).
If you look at openage (age of empires 2 reimplementation) the game is not playable 25 years after release and that game is considered a classic, we could lose a lot of very good games or software.
I would argue that even having a project as source available is better then closed source and can still be pretty good, look at for example the FreeSpace 2 Source Code Project.
If anybody want to ask a game creator to make a game open source and he refuses, suggesting a source available license might still be a good idea.
This is another case where multireddits will be helpful, having a "positive information" feed when you feel too negative. even having a "public" multireddit people can discover and subscribe to.
Graphite progress report (Q1 2024) [2D procedural graphic design app written in Rust and Svelte]
Graphite's Q1 2024 update introduces a precise snapping system and a customizable grid for enhanced design control. The update also includes improved procedural scattering with the 'Copy to Points' node, demonstrated in new demo artwork.
Graphite progress report (Q1 2024) [2D procedural graphic design app written in Rust and Svelte]
Graphite's Q1 2024 update introduces a precise snapping system and a customizable grid for enhanced design control. The update also includes improved procedural scattering with the 'Copy to Points' node, demonstrated in new demo artwork.
New piefed feature , anyone can subscribe to any post or comment (piefed is a reddit and lemmy alternative)
Currently, posters can be notified about replies to their posts or comments, or subscribe to a community for notifications about posts in that community. It'd be good to be able to subscribe to a post or comment too.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15109471
> This is a feature that as far as i know lemmy does not have, so it might be worth it to checkout and support piefed, it will probably be useful if there are certain topics that are really relevant to you and you want to develop in depth knowledge of.
New piefed feature , anyone can subscribe to any post or comment (piefed is a reddit and lemmy alternative)
Currently, posters can be notified about replies to their posts or comments, or subscribe to a community for notifications about posts in that community. It'd be good to be able to subscribe to a post or comment too.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15109471
> This is a feature that as far as i know lemmy does not have, so it might be worth it to checkout and support piefed, it will probably be useful if there are certain topics that are really relevant to you and you want to develop in depth knowledge of.
New piefed feature , anyone can subscribe to any post or comment (piefed is a reddit and lemmy alternative)
Currently, posters can be notified about replies to their posts or comments, or subscribe to a community for notifications about posts in that community. It'd be good to be able to subscribe to a post or comment too.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15159862
> cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15109471 > > > This is a feature that as far as i know lemmy does not have, so it might be worth it to checkout and support piefed, it will probably be useful if there are certain topics that are really relevant to you and you want to develop in depth knowledge of.