Lemmy maintainer
There are certainly a lot of possibilities, the problem is generally lack of time and developers. Ibis supports OAuth login now, although Lemmy doesnt work as an auth provider yet (but that could be done by having another service handle auth). Anyway first I need to cleanup Ibis and get the new version out.
I rewrote the text again, have a look and let me know what you think. Also made some more design changes the donation page.
“Help Design Lemmy” sounds good, thanks for the suggestion. I looked around for some info about A/B testing but it seems relatively complicated to setup. Do you have any tools to suggest for that? And I can see what you mean about the text sounding unsure. What do you think about this one?
We provide Lemmy as free and open source platform without any tracking or advertising, and work every day to improve it. Yet we also need money to pay our bills and provide for our families. Only 2% of Lemmy users donate, so we need your donation to keep this model working. Thank you for helping to create a new form of social media.
AGPL specifies that everything is provided without liability or warranty, so I dont see how anyone could have reason to sue. Besides Lemmy is not a company, if anything a nonprofit would make sense.
I opened an issue regarding a donation dialog for instance admins, which seems closer to what you mean.
Hmm that may be true, but now its already implemented like this, and this would require a breaking change. So better to leave it as is. Anyway the logic should not be changed.
We devs have never met in person, and we are too shy to publicly share our pictures :D
Not sure about the question mark, but the icons are a great idea! Here is how they look with different colored buttons:
That is true, but not so easy to do. To make donation pages like those in your link would require setting up some kind of nonprofit and directly handling credit card payments with some payment processor, and probably various legal requirements. By relying on existing donation platforms we have much less hassle.
Not sure what you mean, I can see these without login:
Right, I removed the asterisk and added a dotted underline instead to indicate hover text. The text with 4 months left is an old leftover, Ive removed it. Also made the text bigger and changed the button layout (though it looks too green now).
Lemmy dev here. Making the same post to multiple communities is not possible, so you need to post multiple times tagging a different community each time. Links are taken from Activitypub attachment, but Mastodon only seems to support image attachments. So it is not possible to add other types of links unless Mastodon adds an option for that. Markdown would also have to be supported by Mastodon.
There are various other microblogging platforms on the Fediverse which may support these features and may be better suited to your purpose. For example Mbin, Hometown, Pleroma, Misskey or Mitra to name just a few.
Lemmy has no QA, only testing in production ;)
Thanks, good to know.
It seems difficult to explain these in such a short text. However I will make a similar post soon to improve the donation page on join-lemmy.org, maybe it could be included there as it has more space available.
It could be backported, but there are now significant changes between the 0.19 and development branches, so it would take some work.
Fair enough, its just a bit strange that this particular critique comes up regularly.
Keyword filtering is about to be merged into Lemmy. Other features will also be added over time.
We are working on new moderation features all the time, for example 1.0 will correctly federate instance bans which is quite complicated to get right. There will also be a plugin system which allows for much more flexible mod tools. Its just that our time is very limited for all the work that needs to be done on a project with over 50k active users.
I can replace them if you can suggest better alternatives. Anyway Lemmy users seem to be older than Reddit users, and those who have spare money to donate should know these normal financial terms.