I think the fediverse should take something from C++ playbook, it toke forever for the C++ 11 standard to be created but after the standard C++ foundation started getting significant funding which it used to fund work on standards the pace of publishing standards became a lot faster.

Did you see the link to mozilla addons website? (it’s on the side of the page) , just download it and i think it should be clear how to use it.

I would love an RSS reader that is FOSS for firefox for example

I use livemark.

The trend appears negative, see here , on a more positive notes the number of donations seems stable (when checking using the web archive).

Yeah that’s pretty much the point, but it’s a real world method to get work done , see the bounties here, it might be especially important if the developers make a mistake when prioritizing (which is expected because they are humans, if there are bugs in code there are bugs in priorities).

They say the developers told them not to used bounties, but i specifically remember one of the developers saying he will accept code requests made with bounties , although he did mentioned he thought they are not worth it and have disadvantages (which i disagree with it).

Also one of the problem he linked to is now resolved.

Maybe if someone will offer paid management of this software, people could contact the artist and suggest it as an alternative.

I wonder if the ideal of advanced filtering works in practice with current open source social media platforms.

What do you like about it? what are it’s best qualities?

You can’t even log into your account if you’re banned, how are you supposed to appeal?

That’s actually reasonable criticism (mods might not list other ways to contact them), i don’t see an issue opened so why not open one?

Regarding the other stuff, Feel free to open an instance, but i doubt that people care about that stuff.

As it stands, I do not see a way to fix this situation without a hot and active ranking system that takes into account the number of users active in the particular community

lemmy equivalent of multireddits (which is the issue on github with the most “thumbs up”) could be useful here, i have multireddits that contain low frequency posting but i still use the front page for “regular stuff”.

I don’t think subscriber count is a useful metric, look here, subscriber count keeps growing but number of comments made decreased by a lot (apparently reddit was hit hard from the API changes).

I don’t know what you can do with that kind of data, but maybe doing the same thing for active users is better.

Like when it happens with FOSS, admins are starting to burn out, better to have at least two people working on a instance IMO (A bus factor of more then one).

You might get the same problem that exist in FOSS people won’t get paid and quality will decline (like heartbleed etc), Also you want to allow big communities without splitting them which is bad UX.

You are basically asking people to work for free for you (no point in sugar coating it), and honestly if people want to volunteer there are more important goals tbh , we should have full time people working on managing instance IMO .

I suggest linking to the repo, maybe also adding a link to awesome lemmy.

A generic review website might be better (something like metacritic) that can also review games and software.

Look here for list of platforms and their popularity

I don’t think this is the best place to ask, some support forum for pixel fed would be better, but if there is no option to not show nsfw content and not show a certain instance (that a user can set on his own without the instance admins) maybe you should submit a feature request.

I would argue almost all people don’t care what instance they are in as long as it’s “normal” and reliable (won’t go away).

mastodon is also under the AGPL which makes it very hard to build “abusiveness” into the platform.

We got better problems to solve.

federation is the weapon you don’t need to use, because corporations fear you will use it.

one to provide an outlet for people’s unpleasant/destructive thoughts (sometimes voicing them will help temporarily quiet them if you are in acute distress).

That sounds like a problematic issue, reddit already has a problem with communities for support where "ppl who suck at X give advice to other people who suck at X). These types of communities might reinforce unhealthy attitudes, I suggest you at least link to sources that have at least trained volunteers (my country have those, and the US probably also has it), maybe also links to other resources like free online CBT/ACT therapy resources or books.