I kind of hope gaben has set up something smart for his death. Eg Valve is owned by a trust.

The US won’t. The EU probably will.

I’m sure that everyone who was raging at Sync over the last few days, stating that all software should be FOSS have all made significant contributions to the Lemmy devs.

FOSS is pretty bloody great, and one of the greatest things about the modern IT industry. But FOSS doesn’t pay a mortgage.

To be clear: I have contributed to Lemmy, and will likely pay a lifetime fee for Sync sooner or later.

Your typical dev is not a technical writer, and shouldn’t be doing the proper write-up.

If you feel (and it seems you do) that this skill is missing from the Lemmy team, perhaps you should volunteer some time.

PCI lanes in alternate of SATA/Ethernet NIC. If it’s not on the motherboard there’s a damn good chance you can buy a PCI/M.2 card for it.

I’ve been trying to decide what the best, smoothest, option is to make the fediverse “better”.

I think that making a line between a “Fediverse client” and “Fediverse Server” is the answer. A client that can easily browse multitudes of servers, letting you join lemmy subs and follow mastodon accounts might be the answer.

They’re doing some dodgy stuff with your data, that’s for sure. But the sign-up is smooth. Instagram has a LOT of users, and Meta is leveraging that and making it super easy to share to IG that you have made said threads account (and if you don’t, they will do it for you). The FOMO is real.

They have taken the biggest challenge to use a new social media platform, rebuilding your spidery web of follows, mutuals, weird interests, and friends, and made it basically transparent. It’s a UX marvel. The sign-up numbers reflect that IMO.