Dansup is looking to fund working on fediverse projects full time (www.kickstarter.com)

submitted 6 months ago by Cris_Color@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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If you have a couple dollars to spare :)

https://mastodon.social/@dansup/113928378036027608

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[-] demeaning_casually@infosec.pub -2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Judging by the state of his apps, could he pay someone to mentor him while he learns the basics of app development? I’m not saying it’s easy but he seems intent on learning as he goes on his closed source project which due to the buggy state of it, makes the rest of the fediverse look like a bunch amateur software developer hacks to the influx of millions of new users.

[-] chirospasm@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Well, not closed source anymore. Looks like, in an effort to align with 'switch' day that's been happening on Mastodon, the source code is now open to the public as of an hour ago:

https://mastodon.social/@dansup/113932093747824896

May be a good opportunity for folks to support his efforts to craft stronger user experiences. I know, from dansup's posting, that he is 100% on-board for others to help.

[-] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 months ago

Good news!

[-] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 0 points 6 months ago

It makes the fediverse look about as bad as Lemmy did when the Reddit apicalypse happened.

I think we mostly need to communicate the state of things well and frequently to keep users aware this is super alpha preview software and that the the technology is sound but just needs time to mature properly. It's the cost of freedom: patience. As long as the fixes and improvements keeps coming, buggy shouldn't be that much of a problem.