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  • Make votes public so I can easily communicate to people that I liked their post like on Mastodon

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  • If its off by default that is a reasonable suggestion.

  • Foss - OnTime: Presentation timer app for speakers at live events

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  • Definitely OK to promote as long as it is done in a way that is considerate (and that is your case). i suggest also cross posting to more active open source communities like [email protected]

  • Servo 0.0.1 released!

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  • They report a score which is not very correlated with the number of tests passed (there was a big increase in the number of tests that pass in 2023 but the score barely rose). I could not figure out how to show the score for other browsers on wpt.fyi.

  • Bazzite surpasses 30k active users, gaining 5k users since two months ago 🎉

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  • Lemmy has a similar number of active users and makes about 3K . That money would be good for the ecosystem and could help fund upstream projects (I am sure wine could use the money for example). But they will have to use fundraising methods similar to lemmy to reach that number (popup, good message etc)

    The donate page is kinda a mess IMO to be honest. There should be one organisation to donate to otherwise this creates overchoice.

  • Piefed finally fixes Lemmy’s ugly post URLs

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  • At this point, you have to wonder what the Lemmy dev team is focusing on.

    See the 1.0 milestone for lemmy and lemmy-ui . you can see both what they intend to do and what they already did.

  • Vega Strike 2024 Community Survey Results (Vega strike is a open source space trading and combat game)

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    Vega Strike 2024 Community Survey Results (Vega strike is a open source space trading and combat game)

    www.vega-strike.org /blog/2025/09/11/community-survey-findings/
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    Vega Strike 2024 Community Survey Results (Vega strike is a open source space trading and combat game)

    www.vega-strike.org /blog/2025/09/11/community-survey-findings/

  • LemmyNanny - An AI bot for Lemmy moderation and more!

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  • Sure people might downvote here but engineers care about facts. have you tried testing this in real world setting? working with moderators? what feedback did you get?

    Right now this is experimental. you can't just use AI and automatically expect it to always do a better job then the established methods.

  • Lemmy community feedback: Should we fetch and combine comments from cross-posts on the post screen? · Issue #3415 · LemmyNet/lemmy-ui

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  • What i am worried about is that the federation system is already kinda hard to understand. New users who are not hardcore fediverse nerds (Like me and probably the rest of the people answering this post). Could start thinking "what the hell is going on?!" and might think lemmy is obtuse and drop it.

    Lemmy could at some point benefit from a UX study where new users volunteer to be observed while the software is first use (software companies sometimes do that). maybe that could verify there are no problems . adding a searchable FAQ and a introductory tutorial (saying something "this will take about 5/10/15 minutes) could help.

  • [Suggestion/Question]Add costum sort types to lemmy?

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  • Also lemmy has some kind of plugin system. this actually sound like something where a lot of people will want to experiment with different methods (maybe even benchmark them in some way). maybe open an issue asking for the ability to extend sorting with plugins?

  • Apps like reddit and lemmy

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  • tildes.net is pretty good. i augment my use of lemmy and reddit with it.

    And there are a ton of them listed here if you want to spend more time doing market research (and share your conclusions if you find anything interesting).

  • Linux phones are more important now than ever

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  • Have you looked at the state of how open source smartphone os projects are funded? Seems like not enough people think it is currently important. i saw no bump in funding since the announcement. I would say the best bet is trying to help one of these projects with fundraising and trying to educate or convince enough people it is worth investing in. and obviously donate if you can. Although to be honest even i don't do that (i think i invest enough in FOSS).

    Once i bought a phone i tried to pick one that is friendly for FOSS projects and went with a pixel (which grapheneos recommended). so voting or signaling with your wallet is an option.

    I also think something like codeberg. where anyone can be a member if he pays fees that help fund the organisation and democratically elect a board that decides what to fund could be helpful. codeberg has a pretty good organic growth so that is encouraging but i don't know if there is enough interest in that.

  • Changing direction for my lifesim game, looking for opinions

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  • Any github or codeberg people can star?

    Also if so many people want it. starting to fund raise money might be good. paralives is already making good money and because it is closed source there is a incentive to make modding harder (so they could sell improvements). Plus this sounds really hard and labor intensive. being able to work on it full time could help you stay motivated. even seeing people giving money might help you feel the work is really appreciated and its not just cheap words.

  • [Unpopular Opinion] There are too many distros. The diverse distro-landscape hindering Linux adoption.

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  • Its like restaurants . you could go and some menu items you like and some you won't like. asking for a recommendation from the waiter is a pretty good bet.

  • [AMA] We're Framasoft, we develop PeerTube, ask us anything!

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  • Maybe a survey can disprove my opinion. but i would argue the option of having ads plus paying for the ability to remove ads is something most users would accept (even if there is a vocal minority). especially if you explain that researching and developing some forms of content (documentaries, video courses, investigative journalism) can take dozen of hours and is not feasible to do without getting paid when aiming for the highest quality.

    That could be better then just restricting videos (mitra could also be a open source alternative to patreon).

  • Should Lemmy hide downvotes on your own posts by default?

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  • Regarding mental health . avoidance is generally not considered a good thing. one of the criticism of why technology is bad for cognition is that it creates a very pleasant experience but solving problems and achieving meaningful outcomes in the real world requires delaying gratification and accepting negative experiences

    Emotional regulation and resilience are skills. if you don't get negative experiences you don't get to practice those skills. this is why helicopter parenting where well meaning parents do too much for their kids end up creating psychological problems like lowered self esteem.

  • [Help Design Lemmy] How to improve the Joinlemmy Donation page?

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  • All those terms, "increasing shareholder value" , "no tracking", "is billionaire proof" , "no venture capital available". would be really hard to understand for anyone that is not a hardcore fosshead . even if they will understand understanding the benefits of these properties is not easy . reportedly the average age of a reddit user is 23, how many 23 year old know what "venture capital" and "shareholder" even mean?

    Maybe lemmy needs something like a whitepaper or a manifesto.

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  • In blender for example you receive prioritized support when you sponsor them.

    There are also various rewards (like voting on features, exclusive access to discord channels, having a sponsorship section on the website that acts as something like an ad).

    There are various guides for this. but that's the shortened version.

  • [Help Design Lemmy] How to improve the Joinlemmy Donation page?

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  • I looked around for some info about A/B testing but it seems relatively complicated to setup. Do you have any tools to suggest for that?

    Not really. i know wikimedia foundation did that but it is probably not the best option. googling gives a few results but that's not really insightful.

    And I can see what you mean about the text sounding unsure. What do you think about this one?

    I don't think this solves the problems i mentioned (including in the pull request). donations and working full time are a means to an end. the average response by average joe might be "well they can just get a regular job like the rest of us".

    I don't we should insist on just having a elevator pitch. sure an elevator pitch is very useful but i know that when i wanted to donate to charities I looked for a decent chunk of information to help me make a decision.

    this part that appears inside thunderbird (which seems to be doing very well interm of fundraising) is more like something i had in mind (in term of feeling important)

    there is some research about this type of messaging (see risk aversion and fear appeals). naturally it does not feel great because i think the thought that a project is at risk and might need donations is a negative evaluation that will probably produce a negative emotion. but i think it is the honest truth for thunderbird and lemmy and any large scale open source project.

  • [Help Design Lemmy] How to improve the Joinlemmy Donation page?

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  • If you know a catchy name for this series you can also comment it below.

    Add "help design lemmy" next to the title? e.g.

    Help Design Lemmy: How to improve the Joinlemmy Donation page?

    As i said adding a "learn more" section would be really helpful. right now it sounds like you are not really sure you even want donations. if you won't believe people should donate and are not willing to explain why people should do it why should potential donors believe it? . so far i didn't really see a noticeable spike in the patreon and liberapay stats despite many of the largest servers using the newest version (you can enable it to show the version of servers). some projects have a fairly consistent increases in the number of donations for years (e.g. 1 2 3 ) and i don't think lemmy has less potential. even piefed donations have been increasing organically.

    Of course A/B testing will be the best way to prove these claims.

    Maybe we could crowd source a list of arguments about why people should donate.

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    MeroChat is a open source website that helps you to find people to chat with

    mero.chat
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    The Open Source Hardware Association needs your help

    www.oshwa.org /2024/07/09/oshwa-needs-your-help/
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    The Open Source Hardware Association needs your help

    www.oshwa.org /2024/07/09/oshwa-needs-your-help/
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    The Open Source Hardware Association needs your help

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    PureOS Optional Subscription Added to Advance Development

    puri.sm /posts/pureos-optional-subscription-added-to-advance-development/
  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    PureOS Optional Subscription Added to Advance Development

    puri.sm /posts/pureos-optional-subscription-added-to-advance-development/
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    PureOS Optional Subscription Added to Advance Development

    puri.sm /posts/pureos-optional-subscription-added-to-advance-development/
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    Talk about The Beijing institute of Open-Source Chip , details work about open source RISC-V cores for phones and servers (xiangshan), work on open source EDA , enabling verification of chips using pr

    yewtu.be /watch
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    FreeBSD 14.1 vs. DragonFlyBSD 6.4 vs. NetBSD 10 vs. Linux Benchmarks

    www.phoronix.com /review/bsd-linux-threadripper-7980x
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    FreeBSD 14.1 vs. DragonFlyBSD 6.4 vs. NetBSD 10 vs. Linux Benchmarks

    www.phoronix.com /review/bsd-linux-threadripper-7980x
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    FreeBSD 14.1 vs. DragonFlyBSD 6.4 vs. NetBSD 10 vs. Linux Benchmarks

    www.phoronix.com /review/bsd-linux-threadripper-7980x
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    Purism (creator of FOSS friendly phones and hardware) 2023 financial report , income grew by 350% in three years and the company is profitable

    puri.sm /posts/2023-finance-report-profitable-more-assets-than-liabilities-over-9m-in-sales-50-margin/
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    Purism (creator of FOSS friendly phones and hardware) 2023 financial report , income grew by 350% in three years and the company is profitable

    puri.sm /posts/2023-finance-report-profitable-more-assets-than-liabilities-over-9m-in-sales-50-margin/
  • Free and Open Source Software @beehaw.org
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    Purism (creator of FOSS friendly phones and hardware) 2023 financial report , income grew by 350% in three years and the company is profitable

    puri.sm /posts/2023-finance-report-profitable-more-assets-than-liabilities-over-9m-in-sales-50-margin/
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    Open Source League of Legends | An Attempt

    old.reddit.com /r/opensourcegames/comments/1cz3212/open_source_league_of_legends_an_attempt/
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    Open Source League of Legends | An Attempt

    old.reddit.com /r/opensourcegames/comments/1cz3212/open_source_league_of_legends_an_attempt/
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    GIGO Dev - An Open Source Learning Platform for Programmers

    www.reddit.com /r/opensource/comments/1cwm8ik/gigo_dev_an_open_source_learning_platform_for/
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    GIGO Dev - An Open Source Learning Platform for Programmers

    www.reddit.com /r/opensource/comments/1cwm8ik/gigo_dev_an_open_source_learning_platform_for/