the monthly active users count didn’t really seen such a drastic drop, seem like something disappointed lemmy most devoted supporters , i didn’t notice a drop so big in such a short amount of time. there was also an increase in users after the initial surge of users in july due to the API drama. so i think the cooling down is over.

It’s good to see enhancement in moderations tools , there was a lot of feedback on that so i am happy this is being worked on.

With that said donations seem at a all time low (3,524), lower then when the new website started reporting donations ($3,962). on june 2 it was €4,010 , could the lemmy.ml censorship drama be related to this? maybe there is a way to mitigate this event?

It shows “blocked” but clicking on it works for me.

Obligatory mentions of the replication crisis and the Hierarchy of evidence.

Bias against women exists (I remember hearing various “insights” about women IRL from men) but i think something else is going on, reportedly even people who report they are men get “discriminated”, maybe it’s just people who are extroverted show their gender and that slightly correlates with lower quality?

Also i remember reading some woman saying she does not show her gender online to avoid harassment, maybe that also correlates (younger woman not having that insight that not showing your gender could be a net win for the preferences they have)

But the demand is high. There are lots of users, many in a corporate sense using my software to further progress their organization.

tbh there will always be demand for free work, these small libraries that people don’t support seem like free code to me that corporations can write themselves relatively easily.

There is a lot of challenges to this. And these are only the things I thought of. I’m sure in reality it’s even more complicated. That’s why I don’t think the moral reponsibility at the moment falls on these companies. There needs to be a system in place that handles the contributions from users and distributes them to projects and dependency projects.

There are plenty of options and case studies for how to do this, in particular tidelift (which was started by a legit open source contributor) is one option, people manage to raise money using open collective and offer incentive through patreon (vue.js is a good example).

At this point i think everybody should just use the AGPL instead of the GPL.

That’s yet another example of why you should not believe everything you read online, see this .

milk-v is going to release a pretty powerful system, iirc i read it will be released in about 10 months, ventana also reportedly will release a server cpu in 2024.

There is rysolv which is under the AGPL but it probably needs some work (see this and this issues).

On the closed source side there is algora and replit.

for whats it’s worth, here is his linkedin.

I liked oolite (space trading and combat game, also DRL (aka doomRL) and cataclysm DDA , also there is The Ur-Quan Masters megamod (A 2d space game)

IANAL but don’t think they can opted out of it , it’s part of the license

Effective on the Change Date, or the fourth anniversary of the first publicly available distribution of a specific version of the Licensed Work under this License, whichever comes first, the Licensor hereby grants you rights under the terms of the Change License, and the rights granted in the paragraph above terminate.

People might not like this change, but if it helps them makes money that gets put back into the project maybe that is a good thing (for those who does not know, it converts to a open source license after four years), maybe that is better then a open core model.

I mean there are people who probably will not develop an addiction because of this (due to stuff like good self regulation skills), a lot of things can be addictive but also be good (like social media), maybe it is better to add features that help regulate behavior like a notification after a amount of time has passed set by the user (or just suggesting a link to a open source app that does this).

There was an AMA in r/linux and r/opensource about three years ago, I think we should do new ones at some point.

There was a similar post here.

Liberapay might be good if you know python.

Update on lemmy finances (not including cryptocurrencies)

patreon: $1,591/month

liberapay: $374.22 per week (about 1609 per month)

open collective: $2082 (29/6/2023 -> 29/7/2023)

Assuming 63K active users , the per user monetization of 0.08 dollar per user (Reddit’s revenue per monthly user is roughly $1.19).

Estimated developer salary for the two main developers is about 2600$, estimated median salary for developer in the US is about 10K a month.

For comparison firefish made about 1424$ ((29/6/2023 -> 29/7/2023) with an active users count of 11868 (or 8146 if you don’t count calckey, which i think is important because they added a pop up asking for donation, but i don’t know if that is after the name change) so that gives a per user monetization of 0.11 dollar per user ( or 0.17 not counting calckey).

Corrections are welcomed.

That is a 8 year old article, plus they are a democratic organisation where the board of director is elected by the editors, If they think they need the money to be the best wikipedia they can be i will take their word instead of some website owned by Jeff Bezos (And if i am reading wikipedia articles and learning, I am not wasting money and resources on amazon).

If you like using Lemmy, and want to make sure that we will always be available to work full time building it, consider donating to support its development

according to my calculations you are at about 6808$ , is that enough?

Might be worth setting up some fundraising goal, for example if you want 10K a month for two devs and the result will be lower that might incentivize people to donate (patreon has that feature, iirc drew devault created software that can add up the results from various platforms) .

And don’t be afraid to ask for a salary comparable to other tech companies , you do good meaningful work and deserve every cent (even if you feel like the money is not really needed now, you might start families and those can be expensive … )