Its very common to see Gaza flags in Spain.

Edit: Palestine flags of course.

The way I see it funding for Lemmy development is entirely separate from lemmy.ml moderation. That is something for the local admins and users to decide, and they are happy with the status quo.

Where am I whining?

It seems a lot of people especially from the US are still suffering from red scare propaganda. Anyway its just an avatar to give a human face to my online accounts without using my real face.

Thats a character from “Mean Girls”? Never watched that series. Those who abhor lemmy.ml could simply ignore it, there are plenty of tools available. Instead some people spend all day complaining about it. Seems so pointless and exhausing when they could do something useful with their time instead, and post about things that they like.

Of the two us us Dessalines is the one who needs funding the least, he was fine with the previous donation amount of 1000 Euros per dev. Im the one who created the call for donations because I have two small children to feed. So whether you donate or not isnt going to change Dessalines’ mind at all.

Sorry I talked with many dozens of people about this topic and dont remember what you specifically said. In my head it all got mixed together into a single conversation.

The way I see it, funding for Lemmy development is an entirely separate issue from the moderation of lemmy.ml. The moderation for an instance should only be decided by its local admins and users. Imagine lemmy.ml users going around and saying that lemmy.zip must change this or that thing. You would tell them to mind their own business, and with good reason.

I found your reply now, here it is. You were asking for lemmy.ml donations to be separate from other donations. This was already addressed long ago, see here.

I’m not a lawyer and people don’t speak English in my country. So I don’t really care how it works on another continent, as long as you get the meaning.

First you can explain why some people are so obsessed with lemmy.ml that they keep posting about every little thing that happens and even organize a “boycott” (lol). Personally I completely ignore all the politics communities on Lemmy, it’s much more relaxed this way.

First you people complained that donations were paying for lemmy.ml hosting. As soon as that was addressed you moved the goalposts to something different. Clearly it makes no sense to jump through hoops for people who are never going to donate anyway.

It’s definitely wrong to say we’re poor, no idea where people got that idea. Yet the amount of money we get is very little for a Lead Developer. It also doesn’t allow us to pay any additional developers.

I’m glad that you are amused.

If you have to slander us, at least try to make it believable.

Now calculate the donations per active user and the difference becomes very small.

Thanks this is very useful feedback. Especially the search box in community sidebar would be very useful and easy to add. Formatting for community ids should also be easy to improve. A bit later when I have time I will implement these things, and then make a post in the Help Design Lemmy Series regarding search.

By the way basic reading is working for me in Tor browser with JS disabled. Though buttons like switching Local/All, sorting and of course forms like register, login and search are not supported. We could use contributors to help fix these things.

You can setup a Lemmy community and link it in all your project repos. Sooner or later people will show up.

In what way is the search function in Lemmy awkward to use, is there anything specific that can be fixed? You are right about subtopics, and also Lemmy normally doesnt show discussions organized by topic on the frontpage. That can be changed though with different frontends like lemmyBB.

The lifecycle of open-source software development is well-established in lore if not in fact: under- or unpaid developers work on a project that started as a labor of love. The love disappears, and the labor quickly turns to animosity and dread, as Git repos devolve into loud, angry people demanding this or that, reporting bugs but not contributing to fixing existing ones, and always the politics, politics, politics.

That might be true for some open source projects, but I personally am still very happy to work on Lemmy. If there are loud or angry people on Github we quickly ban them so that has never be a real problem. And politics on Lemmy are easy to block if you want to.

I’ll back up a moment. I am not naive. I will ever conflate lemmy, or really any open-source software written by a small handful of volunteer or underpaid developers, with stability. And that’s OK. I accepted the fact that I would be in for a few bumps and scrapes here and there: like the time a new lemmy UI version was released that cocked up any form fields, resulting in a shitty UI experience. Or the time that the lemmy backend would just fuck around and die, taking others down with it in a spectacular blaze of error messages, all cryptic to me. Or the time when never-ending scrolling was dismissed because one person who happens to be the main developer just does not want it.

The vast majority of Lemmy servers are absolutely stable. Lemmy.ml has been running for 6 years now and there have never been any problems like you describe. Maybe you have corrupt hardware or something, but its definitely not something you can blame on the Lemmy software. You should join the admin chat, people there can probably help you to resolve the problem.

Concurrently, as lemmy.fan slowly grew and went through its adolescent phase, development on lemmy became less predictable and eventually stalled to the point where significant bugs and other issues were, and still are, being neglected as lemy version 1 is developed. I will NOT be that loud, vocal, open-source criticizer who laments the lack of work and progress from underpaid developers not giving into my demands and wants, so I began to research other options.

Development is definitely not stalled, there were 87 pull requests merged and 66 issues closed just in the last month. The only unresolved issues are very minor or only affect the development version. And there is a lot of progress on 1.0, it will include many features such as private communities and multi-communities.

Private communities will be in 1.0, along with some other visibility modes.

Can you say which mod tools Piefed has that are missing from Lemmy?