People at the Post Office and Fujitsu need to go to jail over this.
It won't happen. They'll get away with it. Same as ever.
Genuine question. What's the difference between this and rsync?
I wasn't implying criticism isn't allowed.
But opinions on what somebody should do with their time and project are just that.
Feedback must be given in a respectful way or it's not effective. That often doesn't happen with open-source projects and until we change the culture around open-source, this is going to just keep happening.
Opinions ate like assholes. Everybody has one. Doesn't mean its relevant or important. The number of intelligent people who confuse opinion with fact never fails to astound me.
The self-entitlement in open-source has to stop. This is only one example of a maintainer quitting. There are many more.
And the shaming of projects who want to make money to sustain their projects also has to stop. Nothing is free. Somebody is paying for it in time, resources or money.
If you don't like what a project is doing, or how they're monetizing, don't use it. Move on.
Been using this for about 3 months or so. The one piece missing is good swipe word recognition - its really poor compared to Gboard even after this amount of time. I spend more time correcting words than I saved nor typing them. Used swipe with Gboard for many years previously so I know hope swipe works.
Any suggestions on how to improve it?
It has some nice ideas, particularly for moderation. I like that they're thinking hard about these things.
I think its moving too slowly and it's lack of momentum at the time of the Twitter exodus was lost. Its too late for it to become an alternative to the likes of Twitter, Mastodon etc. and I think it will die.
I hope that once it's gone it will leave a legacy of those good ideas I mentioned above which other platforms will take learnings from.
All my opinion.
That was really interesting to read. A lot of people have been saying that Twitter had got a lot worse since ManBaby came along. Not being a user anymore I have nothing to dispute that with.
What is interesting is the companies who are arguably making it 'worse' (partly) are backing that statement up by saying it's better than it was for them. Easier to do business. Easier to make money. Easier to make it worse.
I suppose that's what happens when the owner sees moderation of this type of content as 'censorship'.
Twitter users confuse me. Maybe they double-down on the moderation of their own bubble so it's not quite as bad for them.
You can't trust any of the 'mega-corp' so these donations will have handcuffs.
One thing not said explicitly is that the Fediverse needs a funding model and I believe it will die without one.
I know people are down voting this because of what you suggested. But I don't think we should be afraid of taking about money and funding it. The Fediverse is not free to run, or develop, so without money coming in, it's going to die. We shouldn't he afraid to talk about any options of funding. Even a conversation like this, where a lot of people are against it, can lead to other ideas that are more palpable.
Feels like a case of switching sides, in an effort to say relevant and make a few bucks from interviews.
Ahhh. Kotaku. Yeah, I'll give that big ole clickbait bullshit article a miss.
I may have missed something.
This sounds like it would be the expected behaviour?
This sounds like a good thing?
This sounds like a good thing?