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They do, but also donations are still entirely optional. We're a soup kitchen providing a free meal; if people don't want to eat the soup, or eat it but don't want to (or aren't able) to support the kitchen, that's not a problem.
I personally wouldn't be against migrating our issue tracker off github in the future, especially once the federated alternatives become more mature. The other code contributers would also need to agree though.
We also have the code mirrored in several places off github.
In the matrix dev chats, but we could also post them elsewhere.
Could you open up an issue on lemmy-ui about this? Thx.
Absolutely, lemmy could use so much more dev help.
Thanks! Yep its been a lot of years of work to get it to this level, but it still astonishes me that a handful of ppl can best reddit / twitter when we put our minds to it.
dev here, glad you like!
We always put out calls before (major) releases, but very few ppl actually help test. This means a lot of bugs only get spotted when more eyes see them in production.
All of these issues are solved in the corporate world by paying quality assurance / testing teams, but open source projects don't have those resources.
Yep, instance admins and mods need your support also. It takes a lot of work to keep an instance free of trolls, and its a thankless job.
If I didn't respond to anyone below, thank you. It means a lot, and makes the years of work I've spent on lemmy feel worthwhile and important.
Nearly all large social media platforms have removed dislikes / downvotes. Reddit is the last one to have them, and it wouldn't surprise me if they remove them also.
To elaborate on why I'd like to add this, from the original issue:
This is to enable a user being able to still show downvotes for other people's posts/comments, but hide downvotes to their own content.
Adding this exception for your user alone, is to promote a positive experience, and for users to not have their mental well-being negatively affected by downvotes to their own content.
To mitigate the mental health negatives of downvotes, many instances already have downvotes entirely removed (meaning not only are downvotes not shown, but its impossible to downvote anything).
Disabling downvotes globally (not just for your user), has a lot of negatives, such as:
- Highly negative / low score comments seem to still be upvoted, and so encourage twitter-style rage-bait engagement (instead of just downvoting and moving on).
- These combative threads then keep getting bumped to the top of the active sort, making hostile comments seem the norm.
- You don't know which comments are actually unpopular or not, so like twitter, you have to "check the ratio", of replies to upvotes, to see if something is actually unpopular.
By making ShowForOthers default, we mitigate the downsides above, while also promoting positive mental health.
Just to clarify:
- This is not removing the ability to downvote.
- This is only about adding a setting to hide downvotes to your own content.
- Users can always re-enable showing downvotes to their own content at any time in their settings.
A member of my family is one of these. After her last one died (which she also never walked), she got a puppy. It's going on 6 months now, a puppy who hasn't been on a single walk yet.
Animal abuse nation.
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Not just lemmy, but every fediverse platform can and should be trying to do better than centralized social media when it comes to mentally harmful / addictive patterns in our apps. I've tried to do some things to minimize addiction, but there's a lot more we could be doing.
If you were to rank the things about lemmy that are most addictive, what would they be? Then we can think of ways to minimize or subvert them, where feasible.
IMO infinite scrolling, seeing the same things over again, and wanting to check like your own content likes / dislikes, are the worst offenders.
Electoral reform not only doesn't address root causes, it doesn't even treat the symptoms. It hasn't prevented australia or japan from having far right governments, hasn't returned land to indigenous peoples, hasn't done anything against inequality, hasn't empowered poorer peoples. All it does is make the political bribery slightly more expensive.
At a deeper level, representative elections always result in an oligarchy. The wealthy / economically dominant classes are the only ones who have enough money / prestige to finance their campaigns and win the popularity contest. It makes any political system based on elections nothing more than political theatre.
This is basic stuff even the ancient greeks knew, and communists learned through trial and error, yet liberals in the 21st century can't wrap their heads around it.
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