We could have a constellation of smaller service providers, like we do for email nowadays. Everyone talks about Gmail+Outlook having 80% of the market, but we all forget that the tail still exists and that is made of hundreds of independent companies which make a healthy living charging $20-$50/year.
Speaking as someone who just received a grant from NLNet: I'm glad such a thing exists and I'm grateful for the funds I'm getting which will allow me to pay my bills for a couple of months. But if you told me 5 years ago (when I started working on Communick) that to make a living as a software developer I'd have to depend on the whims of bureaucrats who are playing with money that is not their own, I'd just go apply to Google or go back to my Big Corp.
Centralized economies do not work. Like everything else in the world, the best measure we have to determine if software is "good" is by putting a price on it and seeing how much people want to pay for it.
Also, it's important to point out that this does not mean that we need VC, big corporate structure or any corrupt institution to work. There are indie devs making a killing (50/70/100k€ per month) on their own because they are building something that is valuable and are not shy from charging what they know what their work is worth.
Correct, so when I post my song I created to Funkwhale, it’s then federated across the fediverse, living on other servers and able to be downloaded.
AFAIK, the songs do not get distributed across the Fediverse, only the link to the original server.
Someone in the fediverse likes my song and they download it. Who then protects my license and attribution rights beside myself?
How is it different from you hosting your songs on your own website?
How is it different from songs you made available through Bandcamp? Does Bandcamp go chasing people pirating your work and/or using in unlicensed cases (e.g, playing in a commercial setting)?
Sounds like something that could be useful for Lemmy itself, no?
The "problems" I am trying to solve are a bit like bug #1 on Ubuntu's Issue tracker:
- I don't want to have an Internet which is accessible to large majority of people through "platforms" controlled by large corporations.
- Surveillance Capitalism is a net negative for society. People should be able to access services without having to give up their privacy.
- The attention-based economy has caused terrible damages to civil debate, media institutions are no longer focused on factual reporting and depend on polarization, emotional manipulation of issues and only report on things that are favorable or inoffensive to the Status Quo.
- Because of increased automation, knowledge workers will be increasingly pushed out of meaningful and well-paying jobs and will be forced to try to monetize every aspect of their life. There are no more hobbies, everything is a "hustle" or a "side project".
I hoped that all the things that I've worked on with Communick were made to the sense of mitigating these problems.
- Provide open source platforms which can be self-hosted, but do not demand users to become part-time admins.
- Instead of ad-based revenue, make a honest value proposition: I offer a service, people pay to use it.
- Create a system where people can allocate a budget to support artists and free/libre developers, to foment a reconstruction of a more open culture.
The largest Mastodon instance (mastodon.social) has 360k MAU. This means that one can crawl all of its activities with less than 5 requests per second, every day.
Even with rate limits, the Fediverse is still so small that I could crawl the top 10 mastodon instances in less than a day.
From my desktop PC.
On my shitty DSL.
Anyone thinking that bullying one developer into a well-meaning project will be enough to keep their "secret clubs" away from malicious actors are in for a sad realization.
When you log in via reddit, we should be able to get the list of all (non-user) subreddits that you are a subscriber. You can then filter the results by mapped (i.e, there is already at least one recommendation) and subscribed to take a look at only the subreddits you follow and presumably can help.
Yeah, the interface is still confusing. Community proposals are meant to collect information about subreddits that do not have any alternative. I am still working on the form to let people simply point to a community that already exist.
This can (should?) be resolved by the client application. There is nothing stopping us from developing one single frontend that can pull data from different instances and shows it in an uniform way.
Help me here... What is the story about sync's pricing?
Though I'd rather recommend you just get out of WhatsApp entirely (it's still owned by Meta after all), one way to go would be by using a matrix client (like element) with the WhatsApp bridge.
rglullis
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Wait, what? Can a Lemmy instance have a /c/foo and /u/foo at the same time?