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  • raubarno@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    For the past three years dessalines and I have been funded to work on Lemmy full-time by generous support from the NLnet foundation. These donations are paid out when we implement certain new features. But now we are busy answering questions, reviewing pull requests and urgentlyfixing problems. That means we are unable to work on the milestones agreed with NLnet, and won’t receive payments from them.

    :(

    • CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      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!

    • TylerBourbon@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      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.

  • scrollbars@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    It’s not much but I upped my contributions a bit. Thank you for everything you’ve done for the open, non-corporate internet.

  • Christian@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    It’s upsetting to see the shit-talking because I imagine reading that nonsense is emotionally draining, especially when you’re already stressed out with a billion things to do. I’ve seen you guys active in the lemmy community for years and you’ve always been wonderful. I’m sure I’m not the only one who appreciates the work you two have put in and are currently putting in. I’m really happy that your project is starting to catch on.

    • ToastyWaffle@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Honestly we’re all adults here and we all know how the Internet works. Best to not feed the trolls and ignore them. The more attention you give the more it gives the appearances that their rhetoric has validity. Just move on and let’s all focus on making a better fediverse for all

    • StankFlipper@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Agreed! I love the laid back feel of this community and not all the hostility you see everywhere else. With growth comes change though, so I hope the spirit of this group endures.

  • Deedasmi@lemmy.timdn.comEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    When will we get details about security vulnerability? Is there a formal method for instance owners to stay up to date on those kinds of notices?

    Thanks for the work my friends.

    • nutomic@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      It’s xss, so users could include javascript code in posts which would be executed in other users browsers. We announce new releases in a couple of places, like the instance admin chat, !lemmy@lemmy.ml community and github releases.

  • Die4Ever@programming.devEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    I had such a hard time explaining to someone today that there is no universal set of Lemmy rules/politics and you can run your own instance with literally 0 rules

    people have forgotten that things can exist outside of the few billionaire/trillionaire closed source walled gardens they’ve become so reliant on

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Yeah, I think that’s great. I think it’s awesome that something like Lemmygrad can exist, while also a community criticizing Lemmygrad (there are several) all on the same platform, and without any real central control.

      If you don’t want to see certain content, you can block it and move on, while getting the benefits of federation.

      I joined communities from a half dozen instances, and I’ll probably join communities from even more as I get better at finding communities.

  • NotSpez@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Gang, I’d never pay for reddit gold but I sure as h*ck will pay monthly to support lemmy. You all should too!

  • Stahlreck@feddit.deEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    I hope this new influx of people will also bring in a nice influx of nerds who will make this platform better over time. :)

      • Binzy_Boi@lemmy.ml
        0·
        2 years ago

        I was recently sharing Lemmy to some people and how the entire Reddit blackout is stupid considering everything the platform has done in the past and the mindset of the CEO.

        Someone brought up Voat and they were lamenting how that failed, and I decided to check out the WayBack Machine captures for it, and Christ, nothing but antisemitism and racism.

        • Lenins2ndCat@lemmy.ml
          11·
          2 years ago

          OH BOY VOAT

          Yeah. Free speech absolutism does not attract a good crowd, and once you attract that crowd you will not attract any other crowd because the content output they produce is repellant to any normal person.

  • Red Wizard 🪄@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    I’m in it for the long haul, the first federated service I’ve used that felt like a true replacement for it’s centralized counterpart.

  • Kuvwert@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    God I appreciate these dudes. I don’t envy them one bit right now…

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        Well, I’m lending a hand. I have some patches in production already, and I’ve only been contributing for a week or so.

        If you have the means, please help out. There are tons of bugs, important features, etc, and it’s a pretty stable base, so it’s a good time to jump in.

        • Boud@framapiaf.org
          01·
          2 years ago

          @sugar_in_your_tea About “good time to jump in”: the small size of the lemmy dev community gives you a chance to shift off Microsoft to a community git forge e.g. #Codeberg [1] that aims at forge federation [2] *before* there’s too much #TyrannyOfConvenience inertia. Mastodon devs are reluctant to even *discuss* giving up Microsoft [3].

          @ulu_mulu @lemmy #GiveUpGitHub #forgefed #forgejo https://giveupgithub.org

          [1] https://codeberg.org
          [2] https://forgefed.org
          [3] https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/22572

          • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
            2·
            2 years ago

            Well, I don’t get to make that decision. If the maintainers choose to do that, I’ll follow, but there’s a good chance that a lot of the other contributors won’t. For something in rapid development with a lot of community contributions, you want that barrier of entry to be as low as possible.

            So if it was up to me (and it’s not), I would say no. I would be open to an official mirror somewhere else, and perhaps moving to a separate feature/bug tracking system (esp. if it’s easier for the community to report bugs), which imo is the biggest barrier to moving the repo.

            I guess I’m not particularly worried about it since the project is FOSS and the difficulty in switching is pretty low.

            • Boud@framapiaf.org
              0·
              2 years ago

              @sugar_in_your_tea As a non-lemmy-dev, I don’t get to participate in that decision either, no matter how strong I think the arguments are.

              I’m not convinced that the difficulty in switching is low; as you say, bug/issue tracking is a big barrier, but other features are part of the #EEE strategy [4], and switching later when MS upsets the community like Musk or Huffman will be difficult.

              An official mirror would be a good start to make a future move easier.

              @lemmy

              [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace%2c_extend%2c_and_extinguish

              • nutomic@lemmy.mlOPM
                1·
                2 years ago

                There are mirrors of the Lemmy code on Gitea and Gitlab. They are linked in the readme. We also hope to migrate development to Gitea once federation is implemented.