I had to shorten the title, but some of the information you say is missing is actually covered on the question.

Anyway, I just thought of adding this question today because I actually was asked a variant of this in an interview (no mention about code style docs), and the interviewer was not happy with my answer which was something like "Whatever style decision is important should be covered in the style guide. If you don't have a style guide, then I'd assume that this is not really important for the team, and I rather focus my review on things that really matter. Is the code testable? Is it maintainable? Is the code being introduced completely different from what we have before or are we consistent with our inconsistencies? All in all, I'd rather spend time working on new features and shipping than arguing over style preferences."

i need free ones

Could you expand on that?

Go take a look at all Mastodon instances that ask for donations to keep running: you will see that all of them get at most 2% of their user base to donate. No donation-based instance is big enough that it can afford to pay FTE salaries for moderation and/or administration. And this is for something that affects people directly when they don't contribute.

Go take a look at some youtubers in the "1M-10M" subscriber range that have a Patreon. You will see that the most of them manage to convert 0.5% to 0.8% of their subscribers into direct contributors.

The open web (ActivityPub sans Facebook) is now at ~1 million active users. Even if we got 2% of these users to contribute $5/month to different creators, we are talking about a "Total Addressable Market" of $100k/month. Even with "best case" numbers, it is just too low to be attractive to a substantial number of creators. Compare with Youtube: it's estimated that they paid out around 7 billion USD to all its creators in 2023.

Please don't take what I'm about to say as individual call-out, but your comment really will go to "reasons software developers should not listen to the users (unless they are paying for the privilege)" file.

You have a developer who started the project by themselves, got reasonably popular, does more than what Lemmy is doing and when they need help to be able to keep going, the reaction from the people is "don't bother, just move on to this other fork".

I know this is not your intention, but I can't stop picturing a bunch of locusts flying to the next crop.

They know it already.

Anyway, it is interesting that this particular case is better handled by something like Nostr.

I am pretty sure that you can get a dozen of commercial XMPP providers who will offer the same quality of service, but won't cancel your account if you dare to use a "non-official" client

The problem with Discord is not that it's paid, the problem that is closed and creates a walled garden.

What's wrong with just staying on lemmy.world with this account?

Yeah, hiding the post would be good.

But like I said in the post... It's not about "internet points", it's about visibility of "minority" and niche content getting completely eclipsed by the majority.

As the Fediverse grows and more people come with their own niche interests, there will be more and more smaller groups. If the people on the majority side thinks it's fine to downvote because "they don't care about that", then it stands to reason that every minority will be outnumbered and then the whole system becomes a popularity contest, only "common denominator" topics will get enough traction. This makes the whole system super bland and boring for everyone.

My low-tech and not photo-specific solution for this: I've created accounts for my parents on my matrix server, and we have a "family room" to share photos of the kids. The element client let's you browse all media upload to a room, so you sort of get the "chronological order" display.

The only space that is truly "yours" in the Fediverse is the one concerning your feed and the data you create.

A project, not concerned about blocking ads but rather making sure that it’s their ads that you see?

Do you understand that it is completely opt-in and people get paid for those ads?

A little basic road rules so that they aren’t behaving "unpredictability " to cars.

The moment you start adding these rules for "safety", the quicker car drivers will find themselves exempt of guilt if they get involved in an accident that could be avoided if the driver was paying more attention.

Most importantly I want helmets actually being enforced. Normalized.

Take a look at the Netherlands, see how many people use helmets.

The more barriers you require from people to use a particular mode of transportation, the less people will use it. We need to increase the amount of requirements to drive cars, less from cyclists. "Enforcing helmets" is counterproductive.