You need yo block the alibaba subnets primarily. In my experience this is where most of them originate

Nice for you, bad for the mods. Only way to do that without outsourcing mental strain to other people is to self host

Ye I know that there’s a lot of self-fulfillment coming from FOSS work. It’s why I do it even though I’m not getting paid. However being in Luxembourg, even market competitive rates are barely affordable, and good vibes doesn’t pay my rent, so alas if our org had enough money to pay someone, I would personally still have to continue with the wage work.

It’s unfortunate that people give so much to for-profits, but people doing things that are objectively better for the world, have to tighten their belts to get by.

Anyway, thank you for your time. You explained pretty much what has been my observations in the FOSS space. I agree with all your takes. Perhaps in the future Framasoft and Haidra might be able to collaborate.

Sure, it does look like you were at the right place at the right time indeed and then could continue from there. Having a dedicated communications person is also in my impression very important, but alas they’re not as easy to find for FOSS projects.

Could you be able to elaborate what kind of wages you pay your staff? Are they market competitive, or below market rates for the same roles?

Note that comment federation can get a bit weird between lemmy and mastodon. Replies from mastodon might only be visible from the instance of the user’s you’re replying to directly, if that instance is not the one owning the community, because of the way that mastodon tends to send replies to the user’s instance, instead of sendind them to the community’s instance (which would then forward them to everyone)

It see it both from lemmy.dbzer0.com and lemmy.world. Where do you not see it?

Hey thanks for doing this! Impressive that you can support 10 paid staff. As someone also doing FOSS development in Europe, it’s inspiring that you managed to achieve this so I’m hoping you could share some light. How do you have so many people donating? Do you have dedicated outreach people or just people donate on their own. My own FOSS projects typically just get enough donations to cover their hosting costs and not much else.

Did you start as a big team, or just kinda grew from one person’s projects starting 20 years ago?

Any tips and strategies to other FOSS devs in Europe would be greatly appreciated.

Interesting, I don’t see neither lemmy.world nor lemmy.dbzer0.com

It’s a bit on the light side. I suggested an integration with fediseer to help people discover instances matching their interests more: https://github.com/fedidb/issues/issues/64

Truth is, windows has plenty of such small annoyances just as well, it’s just that everyone is used to the windows way of doing it, so it’s not even worth joking about it.

glances Btw

It seems the dev just wanted to run it as a personal fork and never understood the reason for the pr standards in a collaborative environment

If you want to get some understanding of socialism from an anarchist perspective I can’t recommend enough either Anark for videos, or An Anarchist FAQ for text. Both of these also include a lot of explanation of where anarchism fundamentally differs from Authoritarian Socialists (AKA Marxist-Leninists) and Libertarian Capitalists (AKA “Anarcho”-Capitalists)

it’s lemmy.dbzer0.com

No Port-knocking? Amateurs! /s

The point of it being a core feature, is that people are not going to Discord for its DM capabilities.

That’s true about DM, however DMs are not a core use-case for discord-like services. It’s the group/voice chats etc. I could see a workaround like lemmy does, where if you want to DM a user in another server, you might be able to do it through your fediverse instance (i.e. a DM simply has your fediverse instance DM their fediverse instance), but I’m sure there can be more elegant things like. However DMs by themselves are a weird thing by themselves, so much so, that even bluesky had to bolt DMs on-top and outside of their protocol.

Sorry but what exactly do you communicate and access between discord servers? Are you talking about PMs which are by default independent of servers?

Unified search could easily be achieved through third party tools at the least, like for IRC. I don’t think even discord has unified search between servers.

The bloat that it had tacked onto it since then is egregious.

VCs gotta make back that ROI…

Sounds like this is part of their business plan. Make hosting it so onerous, you’re better-off using their servers, or paying them to do it for you.