Well if it’s any consolation, they would probably maintain .ml with or without a living wage made by developing Lemmy. Your contribution to their lives only dictates whether Lemmy the software gets developed, or they take another full time job and continue adminning on .ml
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Well, that’s actually the benefit of supporting FOSS. At some point along the way, someone can pick up the project totally of their own accord, fork it, and continue development. But I don’t see many devs lining up for the job of being accountable to someone as well mannered as you.
What’s really funny is that your comment that directed extremely aggressive energy at me for the crime of constructing a poor argument motivated me to shell out a recurring payment for the developers out of spite. I guess we really can get something done when we work together.
The platform itself is apolitical. It can be forked and used for any purpose by other creators. Any instance of a different political persuasion can be spun up and maintained separately, as many defederated instances have. This is a result of the project the 2 devs are paid to produce.
Given the name Dessalines, I’m guessing one dev is French though I suppose that’s too much of a reach. Regardless, I think you would be hard pressed to find many developers willing to commit to a project full time when they have to beg for donations from a relatively fickle audience like Lemmy users, just to reach a target of a middling income. Much easier to work for a financial firm building their app that approves predatory payday loans or whatever.
A federated interoperable platform will always have people to get “mixed up” with.
Comments are a hilarious minefield and a painful reminder of exactly how online leftists can never get shit done. We want FOSS federated social media platforms to escape the tech giants that would happily facilitate a fascist wave if it meant they can serve more targeted ads. But when that platform actually exists in a totally functional and apolitical way, we don’t want to support its development because the people willing to work full time on the project for poverty wages have bad political opinions. It’s so bad that we’d rather support Steve Huffman’s bot farm which is 1,000 times as politically influential as Lemmy will ever be at this rate.
Feels like AI would really excel in this. It’s personalized argumentation that can basically auto complete for the most statistically likely (ie popular) version of an argument. CMV posts largely aren’t unique, there’s a lot of prior threads to draw from which got deltas.
Lemmy is just small enough at this point where mods don’t have to rely on automated tools and things like required flairs to effectively manage their community. As it develops, things like required flairs, verified submissions, etc will become more normal.
For example, I’m watching Wheel of Time, and /r/WoT requires you to flair every submission with a spoiler level (books only, show and book, show only, etc). Lemmy can’t really sustain good discussion on that yet, but when it does mods will need to start aggressively removing submissions if they’re not properly categorized.
Link aggregate sites do perform an actual function outside of the use case of doom scrolling. It’s a way that I engage with my niche hobby groups, aggregate news, and troubleshoot niche tech issues. There’s a reason why you Google a question then add “reddit” at the end.
Not the Ship of Theseus in the last one ☠️
You are included in my initial assertion
It’s giving Midsommar
Everyone in this post is the annoying IT person who says “why don’t you just run Linux?” to people who don’t even fully understand what an OS is in the first place.
This is routing from LaGuardia airport in NY, meaning the “walking” route has you taking a subway. Maybe the walking buddy is a local NYC thing meant for people who want assistance navigating the trains. I never see this on my app tho so it must have been a trial feature.
Anyone asking you to file a report with police has likely never had to file a police report. They don’t even want to file reports for things that actually happened directly to you, if they can convince you out of it lol.
Hmmm, you might have a case but maybe not.
The US Copyright office currently does not recognize protections for AI-generated works, and for portions of complete works that are AI-generated. For example, if a comic has graphics generated by AI but a script written by people, the graphics and character likenesses, etc are not protected by copyright.
For audiobooks, the original work and the accompanying recording are both protected by copyright. The audiobook is considered a derivative work, so it may still be protected based on the fact that the original work is rightfully protected by copyright.