On the Fireside Fedi interview with Jerry ( the admin of Infosec.Exchange Mastodon instance ) a scary truth was suddenly revealed ( on 34:11 ): Just to keep the instance up and running he needs to spend up to $5000 a month, pretty much out of his pocket. Donations to the instance barely cover any of that. And if he will ask people to pay to use it, they will, rightfully so, switch to a different instance.
  • rumimevlevi@lemmings.worldEnglish
    31·
    3 days ago

    My point still stand. People won’t go to small instances that have change of shutting down thr most. Like i said in my very first comment we need better migration tools to encourage people to join small instances

    • rglullisAEnglish
      31·
      3 days ago

      There will always be “First we need this, then we will start supporting it” excuse. If you think better migration tools are needed, support the developers so that they can make it happen.

          • rumimevlevi@lemmings.worldEnglish
            21·
            3 days ago

            You just said in another comment that lemmy devs have limited time and budgets to implement better migrations tools. If i find a dev who promote a project lime that i would donate

            • rglullisAEnglish
              1·
              3 days ago

              If we all donate a little bit to the project, their budget will be larger. If their budget is larger, they can get more steady collaborators.

              And even if they can’t get more people, by helping them we show we value all the work they have done already.

      • Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org
        21·
        3 days ago

        If the devs care about that part of the software (or any dev who’s got the time and interest since it’s open-source), they would be working on it. They’ve signalled to users that they don’t care. Let those who care do it. And if no one cares, then it doesn’t need to be done.

        • rglullisAEnglish
          2·
          3 days ago

          This is absurd and shows some ridiculous entitlement.

          Software development is not just a drive-thru restaurant where people just make an order with their preferred menu, and 30 seconds later it is handed it out to you. Developers have to balance a bunch of priorities, deal with bugs, make sure that new features being added can be maintained in the future adequately. It’s also not easy for anyone to just drop by and submit a huge piece of functionality without making sure things works as expected. And they are doing this all while getting basically no money in donations (~3000€/month, for 3 developers is less than minimum wage for pretty much all of Northern Europe).

          If you think it’s just a matter of “they don’t care”, go ahead and write the code yourself.

          • Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org
            21·
            3 days ago

            If you think it’s just a matter of “they don’t care”, go ahead and write the code yourself.

            There’s one big issue with that: I don’t care enough either. It’s not a priority for me.