Is anyone interested in starting a book club? Right now I am reading "Implementing Domain-Driven Design" by Vaugn Vernon.

I have fully switched to kagi, it's not perfect but for the average case it's better than google.

I find it helps navigate certain quirks and get the help I need to thrive. For example, after disclosing I have ADHD, people are much more open to move when I am affected by background noise.

For context, I am the top donor at my instance, I recognize that there is a need for funds. BUT, I believe it's important for the fediverse to be accessible to everyone regardless if they have the funds for that.

Dopamine received, initiating hyperfocus protocol!

As a rule of thumb, we’ve observed that a team of 5 trained moderators appears to provide ample coverage and redundancy for servers of about 1,000 active users

That's a fascinating bit of information. I would expect 5 moderators to provide coverage for more users. I am wondering how they came up with that statistic (will update the comment if I find an answer).

Remember that offliine/IRL community management experience can be just as important as online experience

Interesting idea, wondering what's the IRL presence of the fediverse...

If you’re building toward participatory or democratic governance, consider establishing a proposal and voting system (some teams we spoke with use Loomio, but multiple options exist) for major policy decisions.

That's soooo important, I love when communities create polls to decide on policy changes.

Avoid promoting brand-new members unless you already have a pre-existing relationship with them

I have followed some discussion on multi-level hierarchies on the fediverse, wondering if there are any instance implementing that...

Consider charging for accounts or offering paid memberships.

Hell no!

We hope there will be more resources available in the future, particularly tooling around legal compliance. This is one of the big infrastructural gaps we point out in our main report

That's a big issue, I would be interested in hosting an instance available to other people, but I don't want to end up in jail and I lack the resources to make sure that won't happen...

That was an interesting read, it seems there is an in-depth analysis of the report here.

(insert confused Carl meme with caption "you guys can get ahead??")

I feel you, I have been facing the same issue pretty much my whole life, the last 3 years I have been able to identify it and make some progress. I am not in a perfect state, not even a good one, but I am making progress and I am happy with it.

For me, the problem was trying to catch up. My pattern involved the following cycle:

1. I would feel I am "behind" and the guilt would start to build up.
2. The guilt would get so bad that I would start doing the things.
3. As I was catching up, the guilt would decrease, and I would start feeling the exhaustion building up.
4. I would try to power through until I would crash and go into a state of depression.
5. Repeat from step 1.

In other words, I was exhausting myself while trying to catch-up, when I was finally ahead the guilt wouldn't be enough to motivate me anymore, and I would crash.

Changing my outlook helped a lot. Instead of trying to catch-up, now I am aiming for consistenxy. This is really hard, as it involves taking a break when I need to even if it means "getting behind". When I changed my outlook my productivity decreased considerably and it took a few months to get at an acceptable state. I tried to be patient, keeping records helped a lot as I was able to see the improve from one week to another.

Recognising my rest needs is really hard, I just don't feel it untill my brain goes absolutely numb. Keeping a journal has helped me analyze my behaviours and recognise my limits. I try to respect those limits by being proactive and schedule rest days before I crash.

Ultimately, this is my experience and yours may be different. Some general guidelines would be to try to take things one step at the time and rely on your journal because your memory is not a reliable source of information.

PS I fucking hate journaling, it's the worst things ever, and having to rely so much on it drives me crazy.

ALL OF THEM! NO COOKIE IS LEFT BEHIND!

My high score is around 4 packets in around 20 minutes.

That's why I stopped buying cookies...

Got anything to share? source/screenshots/roadmap/feature-set/mock-ups

well, I usually roll a few cigarettes for the road, put directions on Google maps, and adjust my seating/coffee/whatever else I need to be comfortable. In total it takes a minute or two.

Interesting concept, it would be nice to provide instructions for instance admins.

Also, I would suggest adding tags, that way instance admins can select specific tags if they want to. It would help create a better local feed for new instances.

reminds of the children of men movie

My immediate thought was "yes, we need this". My second thought was "can we make one for ourselves?".

I am sure for each success there is an article by a small local news source waiting there to be discovered. I think your post gave me inspiration to start digging.

Also, I am wondering if there should be a community on Lemmy dedicated to successes?