You are on 0.18.2, lemmy world will be upgraded tonight. OP is on spouli.xyz which is on 0.18.3

And by commercializing it they would destroy it, since they will be promoting content that generates most clicks and everything will become agresive.

That happened to all porn, it got disgusting.

I want to see real people sharing their sexuality, not people faking it for money.

They did say “X milions of accounts were ACTIVATED in one day”, not “created”.

Another thing I never see anyone in US is talking about: If US veterans need so much help (and they really do), what is happening to people in counties they were fighting against? And those are not only soldiers, but whole families. Everyone ober there has witnessed same shit they did, kids, elders, moms…

That, actually, makes sense, it never crossed my mind.

More than that, it is trackers on which, probably, no one knows how much is worth.

I think we should try with opt-in ads.

And it would be on me if I want to donate money, or via ads or nothing at all.

After that we can see if that is enough or more active approach is needed.

We can even have an opt-in for NSFW ads, which would probably make more money. Most of the time I don’t mind, it is just important that I can switch it off.

Even porn looks more boring, not sure if it’s just me or content really suffered from all this.

Simple as that, of some instances federate with them I will not use them.

We will have block list like with ads, if necessary.

I don’t think that FB even knows that lemmy exist, problem is they are so big they will crush us by accident.

Even back than with XMPP, Google didn’t kill it intentionally. No one expected it will be smaller than before google used it. I remember watching empty list where all friends were. But it happened, and I never thought that Google wanted to kill XMPP.

Maybe they want to use Activity Pub so that they can influence further development of it. I don’t know procedure how w3c is makeing decisions and updates to it, but I doubt someone that is not using it can have influence.

I also think they don’t care about us, I doubt they even know we exist.

That doesn’t change that they would destroy us unintentionally. Like Vogons.

On the other hand, most upvoted posts and comments on redit are far away from best. I expect most of those people will not even notice, they just scroll over reposts and bot.

Maybe I should try Aegis, but andOTP does job perfectly for me

Edit: But it has not been updated for two years and is Unmaintained. F-droid should really start keeping track of this. Thank you for motivating me to check.

KeepassXC on desktop with browser plugin, KeePassDX on android I find it less confusing to use than Keepass2Android.

It is only a bit difficult to setup sync, but you can use syncthing, or drive and it works nicely.

I know that r/Python is closed, which is big sub. I ended up there after some search.

I think that it is.

That is default zsh history search, pretty nice.

I am, somehow, on both sides. I do think monetization is necessary, but would also like to keep part of it out of it.

I guess that I see monetization a bit idealistically, like having non tracking ads and sponsorships, or having separate instances with paid accounts that is also financing others… stuff like that. But that might not be enough anyway, as it is not for reddit, twitter, fb, yt… even with all of their data harvesting and selling.

So maybe donations are the way to go? Wikipedia is one of the biggest sites of the world and is managing to collect enough money through donations.

Lemmy/Mastadon is even easier, country/cities can have their instances to allow their citizens access to social network, companies can have their instances for their users and potential users or just as giving something to community.

And we can have this kind where we donate to individual administrators.

I think that even if I would enable adds they would get less than 1USD per month for me, let’s say I donate 10USD per year for lemmy+mastadon?

Maybe tutanota, protonmail can have their instances? They are already hosting stuff, so would be a big problem (except moderation).

I can see all of this fail, but I also see it can succeed.