Looking forward to donating come next month, sorry to hear the struggles with the funder as of late.
this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2023
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Just made a donation on Liberapay, thanks for everything that you've done!
I subscribed to their Patreon. I don't pay for subscriptions normally, but for an open source platform I'll gladly pay to keep it that way!
Same. I also ent ahead and became a regular patreon giver. Only 10 a month but its far better than buying some dumbass blue check or waiting for reddit to do the same since the CEO clearly loves him some Elon.
It's not much but I upped my contributions a bit. Thank you for everything you've done for the open, non-corporate internet.
Thanks for your hard work.
On another topic, there are rumors circulating that we are fascists or supported genocide. These claims are completely false, and like most viral twitter threads, are coming from a single Mastodon user on a personal vendetta who didn’t provide any sources. Such slander doesn’t deserve any response and is best left ignored.
- Previous discussion on the moderation policy on lemmy.ml including response from @dessalines@lemmy.ml : Expressing concerns about moderation policy on lemmy.ml
- Accusation of a Mastodon user (probably the one they are referring to): https://mstdn.social/@feditips/106835057054633379
- Essays from @dessalines@lemmy.ml: https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/socialism_faq.md
None of what you linked supports any of the claims that they are a genocide supporter or a fascist, if that's what you tried to show (in fact you proved the complete opposite on the latter).
See, it's all this stuff that really makes the
Such slander doesn’t deserve any response
statement feel very Steve Huffman to me. It very clearly does deserve a response because the problem doesn't end with just saying "nope lol that's not us" and people like me have to go digging through all this bullshit just to figure out the facts: they believe anti-China news and similar is U.S./media propaganda and will moderate opposing viewpoints with "Orientalism" bans and similar. That's not a hard statement to type, and if this viewpoint is in good faith then I struggle to see why they refuse to just say that and consistently resort to "if you don't like our moderation policy feel free to join/start a different instance!" without ever actually clarifying the moderation policy. Even lemmygrad pretty much says outright "if you like capitalism, fuck off."
I mean, dude's not CEO, he doesn't control the instances. He does own a very large instance, but I don't think it's even the most dominant instance post-redditting.
I disagree with his views, though I will admit to some sympathy on some aspects (not the genocide stuff), but ultimately, he's just a dude who makes this software. He doesn't own it, he doesn't have a monopoly on its control, and really, the entirety of the Fediverse could, if he went full Huff, say "fuck you" and defederate his instance. That's the power of a distributed service. Heck, your own instance, kbin.social, could lemmy.ml at any time and it'd have little impact overall.
Even were I to concede to him being "Huffman-like" (which I do not agree with), I don't think he's actually relevant enough in the real-world usage of the software to care about as far as that goes.
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makes the statement feel very Steve Huffman to me
Then you didn't read it, they link a page that clears up their position on it right below that sentence: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/users/07-history-of-lemmy.html
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Only a very small fraction of the 27000 new members are capable of developing the platform, and many (like me) don't donate directly. However, members might be more willing to donate AI or other IT resources in an 'indirect' way.
There are 27000 members with access to an AI, that can code (more or less). There are also developer agent architectures like 'smol-ai', and 'gpt engineer' etc, that works directly on a code base, that could assist with the development. (https://github.com/smol-ai/developer and https://github.com/AntonOsika/gpt-engineer)
An AI could run through the git requests and create a list of 'easy' non blocking features to develop/fix, and the members developer architecture could take on one of these issues and do a pull request. Another way is for Lemmy to host such an architecture, and let members donate 'AI prompts', or even API keys (when accounting is possible) for common development.
The tooling/workflow integration isn't quite there yet to be helpful now, and the chance of Lemmy devs getting time for this right now is null.
But how fast could Lemmy development get with 2-300 member AI's working 24/7 on bugs/features ? I'm not a developer, so I don't know how to set up such an AI assisted development workflow. But it could be done, and development speed of ALL open source projects in general would skyrocket with an open to join 'AI developer architecture'.
Hey, we could even have a global federated FOSS AI developer architecture, and people/smaller AI architectures with cool ideas for open projects could request global FOSS AI developer time for their idea/project. I'm sure someone is already working on something like this.
You're going to learn very quickly that the anti-corporate world of fediverse despises nfts, ai, crypto, and everything aligned with the silicon valley techbro-brained idiots that have taken over the existing mainstream internet. It's going to highlight to you what a bubble reddit is for one specific opinion on most topics.
and many (like me) don’t donate directly
But you pay for API keys?
Yes, that would be 'indirectly' just as we pay for electricity and hardware given to Boink or similar distributed computing, but psychologically it can make a huge difference. However, the exact method is imho less important than creating an AI workflow to assist in development of Lemmy et al. API keys can also come free trials, from private servers using https://localai.io/ or similar services with an API/Key.
So with no knowledge of any development work as you state not being a developer you think that the best for Lemmy is that the creators should spend time that they already have very little of to setup some AI that will supposedly help them magically?
AI would require a lot of tunning to do anything remotely useful, instead of suggesting something out of complete ignorance, donate so that they could eventually employ more people to help.
'you think that the best for Lemmy is that the creators should spend time'
? No, I specifically wrote the opposite. There's no need for you to be 'pissed of' at anything, but you seem to be very focused on a very small part of the suggestion and misses the point. The 2 AI developer systems i linked to are close to being able to handle small issues from a codebase, and are thus not far from being able to assist. How much is needed for a 'Lemmy' size I don't know and I don't care.
There are other ways of supporting than donating, and for other devs to help out in the above way. If you feel offended about the idea, then ..scram ??
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