I think this is the most level headed pro-mbin comment I ever read.
If the project could attract and retain more of this energy it would only be a good thing.
But the defendant still has to put the funds up in the first place? It's a huge gamble and most people don't even have the ante available.
Is there anywhere in the world that has a robust and comprehensive public funding for legal entanglements of all types?
you can but preserve your sanity and stay away from it
Can’t we just find a new way of monetize stuff without ads?
Yes it's called taxation and public funding.
Governments should prioritize floss projects when running their infrastructure and other projects. Our money is paying for these projects. We should have access to all the products of that labor.
Furthermore they should give out money for non-business cases like games and other stuff just like arts funding.
We have private corps stepping in to do this sort of thing with "google summer of code". But it would be better through some nominally democratic structure.
In all cases governments and their agents should be good floss community members. "Free like puppies"
when I start writing this comment, the post is 47 minutes old. if I understand the linked page properly, lemmy.world has been functional (all green checkmarks) for the past 10 minutes which is the furthest back the data goes. All the other instances are all green except for lemmy.one which is all red. I am assuming that 47 minutes ago, lemmy.world had red boxes?
Maybe a different link would have explained the point better but I don't really see how a 30 minute (??) server outage during an upgrade is compelling to avoid a large instance. Are you suggesting it's better to use a server whos admins don't upgrade? If not, is there really any size of server that would meaningfully avoid this kind of occasional disruption? Seems to me that the dynamism of the environment will inevitably lead to various problems. That's part of the experience. TBH threadiverse uptime on the whole is pretty impressive for such a ragtag groups of admins and devs.
I have accounts on some smaller servers but they have their drawbacks too. Using a bigger server is more convenient because the people and content is already there. It's easier. I didn't plan to use lemmy.world but I ended up making account there to use sometimes.
I think in a year or so the situation might be different. I see the ideological point and I would like it to be true. Maybe the technology will catch up. I think it would be nice to be able to programmatically seed content, but maybe that would be obnoxious to admins.
I have this issue intermittently. Admin/devs are aware of it.
Sometimes it is fine for a long time while, but then I start having to relogin after <5 mins. Idk if the difference is on my side, the instance, or something in between.
the FLOSS alternative https://github.com/NeoApplications/Neo-Launcher/
I don't have a play store link if you do please post it for those in need
In US/Europe when cops would do this in bathrooms, parks, bars, bookshops etc they'd get the BJ first before doing the arrest/beating/robbery/roughride.... you know to really be sure the guy was for real. Mostly stopped since the 90s.
Have any of these referendums happened? I have not been able to follow all this
For scale:
According to wikipedia the population of finland is 5.6 million.
I think that would be great!
Not that it wouldn't be worthwhile anyway, but as a general thing, changes which greatly improve accessibility for some tend to be positive for everyone. I think that above post really demonstrates that. The /r/Blind users were using the same 3rd party apps as everyone else. Contrary to what reddit is trying to say, there are not particular "accessibility"-only apps. Like there's no daisy reddit. Being accessible was part of the general high quality, thoughtful design. And now they are being told to use the same low quality, shitty tools which nobody else wants to use, but they can't use. Accessibility goes hand in hand with quality. No news to you I'm sure.
I would be shocked (and sad) to learn if the devs here wouldn't appreciate PRs from a knowledgeable contributor along these lines. I think it could be hard to prioritize doing these things already because of how many bazillions of communications are coming in from people who are already using the platform. And if the main dev doesn't have expertise in this area it is also easier to apply oneself to the many problems you do know how to solve rather than going off on a research project.. (I have no idea about the skills of the kbin devs.)
working hard and nepotism aren't mutually exclusive