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Luci@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Send Loops/Pixelfed a cheque instead
Only if the cheque goes towards improving the UX of it all. The main thing that prevents normal users from switching is forcing them to learn new concepts like federation, picking a server, and all that entails.
People here are in a bubble where they think everyone else is as tech savvy as them.
And people beginning the conversation with “blah is a service you can self host” doesn’t help. Such a personal pet peeve.
It’s the new “btw I use arch”
Btw I use Arch.
Yeah. I don’t use tiktok so this doesn’t affect me, but the only reason I’m here is that during the whole reddit API fiasco (which, to be honest, as a non-tech savvy person I still don’t completely understand), someone posted a link to beehaw and it seemed like a breath of fresh air, so I joined. I had no idea what Lemmy was at the time, and I still really only have a vague idea of what federation actually means.
There are a lot of people on Lemmy who seem to assume that no one worth knowing has a life that doesn’t involve a large amount of time on their computer, and that’s just silly. I’m grateful for the people who do have the know-how to build this space, but a healthy community of people is going to include a large variety of knowledge and experience.
Sorry for the tangent in reply to your comment; it’s just been on my mind for a bit. 😅
Hirom@beehaw.org 4 days ago
He shoudn’t send DanSupp a cheque directly, but help him setup a non-profit or foundation for Pixelfed, then give that foundation a cheque.
Dan his doing a great job developing but Pixelfed looks like a one-man show, and that’s a bottleneck for development.