Lemmy Lead Developer and father of two children.
I also develop Ibis, a federated wiki.
I live in Spain. The user donations alone would not be sufficient, but together with the money from NLnet it’s enough to pay the bills.
Of course I could earn much more money by working for a company. But I don’t like to be ordered around by a silly manager, be stuck in an office for 8 hours every day and get stressed working on a project I don’t care about. With Lemmy no one can tell me what I have to do, and it’s work that’s actually meaningful.
It looks like Castopod is the main podcasting platform on the Fediverse. I had a quick look how it federates. Unlike Peertube it doesnt use groups, so it wont be possible to follow the podcasts from Lemmy. What you could do is make a Lemmy post with a direct link to the Castopod audio file so users can play it from Lemmy (that is after 1.0 is released with the audio player feature).
These types of changes are rather annoying because you need to edit the file, wait about an hour for the release build to finish, then fix any problems and repeat until it works. Though its definitely good to have multiple platforms for releases.
So if you want to make a PR and get it working you are welcome to do that. Then I will add the auth token so you can test it. Github seems preferable as we already use that.
Thats doable with our CI tools (docs). Would you open an issue?
Thank you :)
Thanks!
By the way you can now try the development version of 1.0 on voyager.lemmy.ml.
Yes exactly.
Its basically a collection of communities, so you can browse multiple related communities at the same time. Piefed already implements this under a different name:
This is already implemented, admins can specify a “suggested” multi-community which will be shown next to Subscribed/Local/All just like you say.
Thanks :)
Fully agree that theres too much politics. Like you say too often about attacking some kind of enemy rather trying to understand other perspectives. For better or for worse, those seem to be the types of people more likely to use a new platform like Lemmy. Hopefully in the future they will also get tired of this stuff.
Thank you, all donations help :)
Liberapay is preferable as it has low fees and is also open source.
I actually got in contact with them yesterday, will probably have a meeting soon to discuss how we can work together with them.
Liberapay is the best option, because it doesnt take any fees beyond payment processing, and its also open source. Thanks for donating!
I see, or simpler yet a special badge which is shown next to donor’s username. Definitely worth considering. Thanks for the suggestion!
Thanks for the analysis. In addition to the monthly donations there have also been many one-time donations. I agree that it makes sense to update the donation dialog and popup with adapted text from this post, will do that shortly.
Do you have a link with more details? This is what Ive been told:
@dessalines@lemmy.ml made various UI changes that seem controversial to me. Such as changing the theme colors or moving most post/comment actions from the action menu to the context menu. If you have strong opinions on the design it’s best to follow the repository on Github and comment in the issues or pull requests where these changes are made. Otherwise these may also get adjusted later during beta testing.