lesnake 9mo ago • 100%
They probably removed gallery since fossify galery is on fdroid now
lesnake 12mo ago • 100%
Not to forget the buit in popup showing the shortcuts, similar to which-key, but built in
lesnake 1y ago • 100%
Samsung phones just sucks.
Switched to fairphone and could root it without installing twrp, there was only one extra app and I could just disable the google apps and switch to foss ones.
lesnake 1y ago • 100%
I assume you that awards are optional for each server.
How would you determine if awards are enabled? The server of the community or the server where the account was created?
lesnake 1y ago • 66%
Basically yes, but I also assume the cost per users drops/stays the same
I think the next ppl joining are mostly teens who dont consider donating,but would consider occasionally buying something like awards
I doubt external subsidies can cover the missing donations.
Edit: Also I assume ppl in their early 20s are more likely to buy awards than donate.
lesnake 1y ago • 100%
The life is strange games. The great storys combined with the superpowers are an absolute blast!
lesnake 1y ago • 100%
lemmit.online mirrors subreddits.
Thoigh Hopefully we have enough original content in a few months so we dont have to mirror content anymore.
lesnake 1y ago • 66%
I think we should avoid paywalls as much as possible and if any, only add cosmetic purchases.
lesnake 1y ago • 100%
Free awards are the ones ones spammed on random posts so if awards are added, they should be paid only.
lesnake 1y ago • 66%
I dont expect a decentralised platform to be profitable and also think donations are better than in-app purchases.
But I dont want big instances to suddenly turn off because they cant afford it anymore or the development being behind so much we loose users to missing features.
Looking at the donation pages of lemmy instances there are enough donations for now but it is good to have a plan B for in case we get flooded by users not willing to donate so this platform survives long term. That plan B should be as least Invasive as possible,so no ads,analytics or paywall. Thats why I suggested something that is completely cosmetic.
lesnake 1y ago • 66%
Looks like donations work surprisingly well with the current userbase and current expenses. The projects on opencolective are doing quite well.
Lets just hope this stays that way for a while.
I doubt its sustainable that way forever though if more reddit users and subreddits migrate. So if donations arent enough anymore in the future, I hope they choose something like awards instead of flooding the site with ads, analytics or paywals.
lesnake 1y ago • 50%
The hard truth is that long term, we likely need another way besides donations to keep the ecosystem alive.
lesnake 1y ago • 100%
Letting users decide where the money goes to is much better yeah.
I think they should be able to set percentages. See here: https://lemmy.world/comment/1068820
lesnake 1y ago • 75%
Honestly I think awards are a decent way of determining the quality of a post. If a Reddit post has a lot of awards it's a sign that it is especially helpful/interesting. I know there are exceptions and sometimes the flood of awards at the top of the post is annoying, but often it works for determining the quality.
So people will aim to make posts of similar quality to get awards as well.
Karma on the other hand is too easy to get so its leads to shitty reposts to get a lot of likes. But the people don't give awards to reposts that often.
lesnake 1y ago • 66%
There is a reason many YouTubers sell discord roles. Many people are willing to spend 5€/month for a stupid discord rank, so I don't see why it's wrong to profit of people willing to buy awards
If you prefer direct donation, having something like awards won't stop you but if someone wants to buy that overpriced sticker, they can as well.
lesnake 1y ago • 100%
I agree with @tigr@lemmy.world : Giving the user the power to decide where the money goes to is the best option. This eliminates the need for a centralised account with a system to spread the money, which would definitely lead to a lot of arguments.
The user could select something like 20% lemmy devs, 30% instance of community, 50% instance their created the account on. This way the user can decide who gets their "donation"
lesnake 1y ago • 70%
I can understand the mindset, but I worry most people don't think like this.
The thing is, that small rewards for "donations" will likely make the people much more willing to spend money in the first place. Even if it's as small as a sticker on someone else's post that costs the servers involved like a handful of API calls. But when a 1€ award is 3x as popular as the 1€ donation, it will greatly increase the funds available to the instance and, hence better servers, more features etc
Fact is, the Lemmy ecosystem needs money to handle the growing server reqirements as more people migrate as well as the development cost of new features (I know Lemmy is OSS but the devs should still get some compensation for their effort). Seeing how much some reddit users love awards so much that they cant stop giving money to Reddit to award posts protesting the api change, this could be a great way for users to voluntary support the ecosystem. It can be easily ignored by users not caring about them (clients could even add an option to hide them), but users liking the feature can go wild and this time the money goes to volunteers keeping this alive instead of greedy admins, power mods and investors. Though there would be some big organization questions attached: attached: - Which server handles the payment? A centralized one, the one where the post was made or the one where the user giving the award account was created. - How will the money be shared between the Devs and the individual instances in a way that is fair but cant be abused easily.
lesnake 1y ago • 100%
Im so glad we didn't loose the humor in the migration !