Good question!

IMO a good way to help a FOSS maintainer is to actually use the software (esp pre-release) and report bugs instead of working around them. Besides helping the project quality, I’d find it very heart-warming to receive feedback from users; it means people out there are actually not only using the software but care enough for it to take their time, report bugs and test patches.

“Announcment”

It used to be quite common on mailing lists to categorise/tag threads by using subject prefixes such as “ANN”, “HELP”, “BUG” and “RESOLVED”.

It’s just an old habit but I feel my messages/posts lack some clarity if I don’t do it 😅

Done ✅

Thanks for your interest 🙏

Please do drop a line in either !lemmy_meter@lemmy.ml or #lemmy-meter:matrix.org if you’ve got feedback/ideas for a better lemmy-meter. I’d love to hear them!

Oh and feel free to link back to lemmy-meter from Blåhaj if you’d like to, in case you’d prefer the community to know about it.

Something that I’ll definitely keep an eye on. Thanks for sharing!

RE Go: Others have already mentioned the right way, thought I’d personally prefer ~/opt/go over what was suggested.

RE Perl: To instruct Perl to install to another directory, for example to ~/opt/perl5, put the following lines somewhere in your bash init files.

export PERL5LIB="$HOME/opt/perl5/lib/perl5${PERL5LIB:+:${PERL5LIB}}"
export PERL_LOCAL_LIB_ROOT="$HOME/opt/perl5${PERL_LOCAL_LIB_ROOT:+:${PERL_LOCAL_LIB_ROOT}}"
export PERL_MB_OPT="--install_base \"$HOME/opt/perl5\""
export PERL_MM_OPT="INSTALL_BASE=$HOME/opt/perl5"
export PATH="$HOME/opt/perl5/bin${PATH:+:${PATH}}"

Though you need to re-install the Perl packages you had previously installed.

That sounds a great starting point!

🗣Thinking out loud here…

Say, if a crate implements the AutomatedContentFlagger interface it would show up on the admin page as an “Automated Filter” and the admin could dis/enable it on demand. That way we can have more filters than CSAM using the same interface.

Love the attitude 💪 Let me know if you need help in your quest.

I see.

So what do you think would help w/ this particular challenge? What kinds of tools/facilities would help counter that?

Off the top of my head, do you think

• The sign up process should be more rigorous?
• The first couple of posts/comments by new users should be verified by the mods?
• Mods should be notified of posts/comments w/ poor score?

cc @PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@lemmy.ml

Interesting topic - I’ve seen it surface up a few times recently.

I’ve never been a mod anywhere so I can’t accurately think what workflows/tools a mod needs to be satisfied w/ their, well, mod’ing.

For the sake of my education at least, can you elaborate what do you consider decent moderation tools/workflows? What gaps do you see between that and Lemmy?

PS: I genuinely want to understand this topic better but your post doesn’t provide any details. 😅

I just love the “Block User” feature. Immediate results w/ zero intervention by the mods 😆

Nice! Good to see this idea becoming more common 👍

I personally use Firefox Relay which gives me better control for my workflow - I usually need my temporary e-mails to last a bit longer, eg a week or a month.

On another note, the post clickable URL opens the Lemmy instace landing page and not that of the disposable email service.

Would be lovely to have a download per release diagram along w/ the release date (b/c Summer matters in the FOSS world 😆)

OK, I think I see your point more clearly now. I suppose that’s what many others do (apparently I don’t represent the norm ever 😂.)

So tags can be useful for not only listening but also discovery.

I guess my concern RE tag & community competing. But I’ve got no prior experience designing a social/community based application to be confident to take my case to the RFC.

Hopefully time will prove me wrong.

That’s a fair use-case.

You see memes in your feed (despite not subscribing to meme’y communities). Three things come to my mind, thinking out loud here:

(1) Could it be b/c the community is not granular enough? Remember we’re in the early stages of Lemmy w/ big “holistic” communities. I’d suppose as we grow, a overarching community will specialise and be split into several more specific ones?

(2) Creating “filters” based on tag/content is a fair usecase and I would second the idea as long as the main dimension of organisation remains “community.” I’m a bit over-attached to “community” b/c I feel that’s a defining element of Lemmy experience & am afraid that touching that balance may change the essence.

(3) Tags can be used to achieve (2) indeed but is the added complexity (❓) to the codebase and UI/UX worth it?

I’m not sure I understand the value of tags for Lemmy (or Reddit in a similar vein.)

Lemmy’s main (& sole?) dimension of organisation is the concept of “community.” You subscribe to communities to automatically receive their updates on your feed.

Now, tags are going to add another dimension for organisation which allows one to curate their feed w/o subscribing.

The good thing about tags is that they simplify “listening.” No need to keep searching for communities or keep scrolling through your feed to find the content you’re interested in.

The downside of tags, IMO, is that it fundamentally competes w/ the concept of “communities” in the sense that, why would I bother w/ finding communities and “explore”, and consequently, potentially contribute to the content of a community where I can simply listen to tags I’m interested in and forget about the rest.
IMO, the reason that tags (moderated or not) are working so beautifully on Mastodon is the lack of communities: listening is the only option.

I stand to be corrected, but it (tags and communities) very much feels like an either/or situation.

PS: Despite its quality and friendliness, Lemmy’s user base and the content they creates is still small. That means, for the time being, communities may work just fine. As we grow and so does our volume of content, we’d probably need new strategies to augment communities. Though I wouldn’t call that a concern of now or near future.

My 2 cents.

The first few paragraphs were a good read where the author makes a good point.

Sadly, it somehow turns into a BluSky promotion afterwards.

Good read, nonetheless.

junk

I’d say “irrelevant to my interests” 🤷‍♂️

😆Can someone make a similar one for bluetooth devices too, pretty please?

Tell me something I don’t know already 😂 The challenge is helping non-techies understand why they should wean themselves off of FB 🤷‍♂️

The GNU GPL is not Mr. Nice Guy. It says no to some of the things that people sometimes want to do. There are users who say that this is a bad thing—that the GPL “excludes” some proprietary software developers who “need to be brought into the free software community.”

But we are not excluding them from our community; they are choosing not to enter. Their decision to make software proprietary is a decision to stay out of our community. Being in our community means joining in cooperation with us; we cannot “bring them into our community” if they don’t want to join.