Calling it hate is an exaggeration , people are entitled to their opinion and informing other people by criticizing snap.

Another advantage not mentioned is that snap is a product of canonical (a for profit company talking about an IPO for years), flathub is managed by the gnome foundation (a US registered non profit, which should provide some legal protection).

Yeah it's probably not doing great, compare lemmy active user count to that of writefreely , it does a lot better, even the number of servers is increasing, the number of other projects starting that compete with lemmy (piefed, sublinks) is also not a great sign .

Not trying to belittle anyone, i just believe in the importance of negative feedback and defensive pessimism.

On a more positive note, the amount of donations lemmy receive (which i think should correlate with high quality usage of the platform) has increased moderately (see november 2 numbers when they started posting the numbers with current numbers) .

How is that not a security theater? , you just need to :

• publish a good snap
• change it to malware after it is approved
• profit

The extra cost added to override this is fairly small, i don't think it will help.

There should be lots of different, human-scale alternative experiences on the internet that offer up home-cooked, locally-grown, ethically-sourced, code-to-table alternatives to the factory-farmed junk food of the internet. And they should be weird.

The junk food analogy is really good i think, There was already research showing people who read newspapers are more informed then facebook users iirc, Open source platforms should develop to give users higher content quality and eventually validate those design using scientific research (kinda like research on the Mediterranean diet). I think giving users better platforms that enable finding and prioritizing high quality content will lead to a better probability of achieving certain goals (better employment, better financial state, healthier eating, better mental health etc).

Seems like it is already possible, after clicking "permissions" when making a post it shows:

This post will be shown only to the people in the first box, to the exception of the people mentioned in the second box. It won't appear anywhere publicly.Start typing the name of a contact or a circle to show a filtered list. You can also mention the special circles "Followers" and "Mutuals".

That said, Torvalds continued, "Rust has not really shown itself as the next great big thing. But I think during next year, we'll actually be starting to integrate drivers and some even major subsystems that are starting to use it actively. So it's one of those things that is going to take years before it's a big part of the kernel. But it's certainly shaping up to be one of those."

I don't know about that, languages which are based on standards (c++ , javascript, c) seem to have much better enduring popularity, i don't want to see rust becoming less and less popular which will lead to less available developers (like what is happening with ruby).

unfortunately other data is not encouraging , the number of servers is both down since the exodus and in the recent month.

I think the number of servers is a interesting metric to look on, it correlates with users who are tech savy and are early adopters, before the exodus the number of servers was growing consistently , despite the number of users mostly staying the same, That was IMO an indication of the relative quality of lemmy at the time and indeed it seemed to got the most benefits from the exodus out of all the reddit alternatives.

compare that with peertube which shows consistent growth in the number of servers (see this month, and long term), I think what makes them better then lemmy currently is that they currently seem better at prioritizing feature development by using a dedicated site.

Also the total donations have declined in the last month (from €3962 to €3,771 today), So i think we should try to not get overconfident and work to secure the future of lemmy or some other open source reddit alternative.

Seems like some open source dev that responds to the "boycott wayland gist" and is against wayland.

They’ve been completely dropping the ball for years. I used to donate regularly but have completely given up on this project. It’s a farce at this point.

Liberapay shows the number of donors has almost doubled in the last few months (look at "view income history"), so i hope it is an indication that they made good changes to the project management and the future will be better.

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.

You can do a "thumbs up" on github, iirc the developer said last time i talked to him is that this is what they use for prioratization.

Here is the list of the most "thumbs up" issues on github for the "lemmy" repo.

We could always use rysolv (a bounty platform), that can different from "I want this" and "i think it is important enought to risk some of my money for it".

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