That would be really great!

Which ones? Haven't seen any others yet.

That's unfortunate

You are right. 😅 Basically all important information in there.

Some good stuff there. Thanks!

Cool. And are you still using Reddit or are you using Lemmy exclusively?

I think it's crazy that an art sub is more popular than an art forum.

I suppose it's the low barrier. People are already on Reddit and thus join the subreddits.

We have a great opportunity with the Fediverse here to replace them.

Isn't there any solution for that yet?

Sorry but this sounds like a skill issue.

larger population seems hopeless.

But what is the barrier? We have a functioning infrastructure. We need to solve the last piece of the puzzle.

People need an easy way to join!

Mastodon has already shown that this works. Even if they aren't as big as others yet, they still make up about two-thirds of the Fediverse. Now we need to replicate this for Lemmy, Pixelfed, and so on, and share our findings along the way.

In the fediverse you are allowed to post thinks like these ✊

Why do you assume the developer has to implement what could be paid for?

If 80% of your income comes from a single company that pays you to develop the features they want, can you afford to decline specific requests without risking that client? Probably not. Without income diversification, you can quickly end up in a situation where your client dictates your work.

Why is the assumption that devs will give up agency?

Because financial dependence limits choice. When a developer relies on just a few clients, those clients gain leverage over them, making it difficult to turn down requests, even if they’d prefer to.

And why the assumption that all paid requests will be by corporations?

Because private individuals rarely spend hundreds or thousands of dollars to get a feature implemented. A more realistic approach for individual users would be crowdfunding or pooling resources to fund specific features.