Crossposting from the other thread
I wonder what kind of of csam detection they have. If they’re only relying on hash matching, they’ve gonna get fucked from novel genai csam. This is why stuff like the fedi-safety exists which they could use as well
This has wildly more impact than anything you’re doing and what most people like you are doing (voting for more genocide)
Man it’s miss the nethernet
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.
That’s the only correct take
The cynical view of America’s educational system—that it is merely a means by which privileged co-eds can make the right connections, build “social capital,” and get laid—is obviously on full display here.
Cynical? I call that realistic. That’s what privileged co-eds have been using it for the past 100 years.
I’m not following SO practices, but I it will come for it as well. It’s inevitable. Those who paid billions for it will require a ROI
Can you give an example of this enshittification for profit?
“Free to use” on a VC-backed service just means you’re the product. I am accusing them of the same thing I’m accusing each VC-backed service: That they exploit our efforts to cash out and then sell the service for someone who will enshittify it for profit.
Also, what do you mean “easily downloadable”? Can anyone download the entire corpus of SO in a way that they could set up their own SO with the same content to bootstrap them?
The need for the service that SO provided won’t go away. Eventually people will migrate to new places to discuss. LLM creators will either constantly scrape those as well, forcing them to implement more and more countermeasures and GenAI-poison, or the services themselves will enshittify and sell our content (i.e. the commons) to LLM-creators.
Never again will I help provide content to a VC-backed service just so that they can rugpull us and cash-out.
If you rent rack space, you can at least call the DC to send someone to reboot it or smt.