Lemmy's Image Problem
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The popular Reddit alternative's user count has grown a lot over the past year. One problem, though: users and admins can't delete images.

Highlighting the recent report of users and admins being unable to delete images, and how Trust & Safety tooling is currently lacking.

  • delirious_owl@discuss.online
    1156·
    9 months ago

    Wow, when are you going to realize that you work for your users?

    This isn’t “one user” being “so demanding”. Its a trend. Read what others have said. Learn from your mistakes. Your community of instance admins are pissed because you’re constantly throwing them under the bus. And, yes, your moderation tools are crap. Thats objective.

    And 2000€ per month is a ton of money. Most open source devs get nothing. Stop being so ungrateful and disrespectful to the community that you work for.

    • jackmarxist [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      432·
      9 months ago

      2000€ is rent for a 1 bedroom apartment lol.

      Also this is not reddit. If you don’t like something, you can change it yourself. That’s how open source works.

    • Adkml [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      405·
      9 months ago

      Fuck off lol you do it then if it’s such a trivial task.

      “Ungrateful” yea they should be super grateful for making a little over 10 bucks an hour to listen to this kind of self important bullshit.

    • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      302·
      9 months ago

      Wow, when are you going to realize that you work for your users?

      Do you pay their salary and have an employment contract with the developers of Lemmy? If not, they do not work for you.

      And 2000€ per month is a ton of money. Most open source devs get nothing. Stop being so ungrateful and disrespectful to the community that you work for.

      This is not a typical open source side project. The developers work full time on it, it’s basically their job. That 2000 Euros is their monthly gross salary. Average monthly salary in France is 2340 euros net as of 2022. The developers of Lemmy are earning well below average.

    • Are_Euclidding_Me [e/em/eir]@hexbear.netEnglish
      272·
      9 months ago

      I love lemmy, having been here since the very earliest hexbear days. In my view, the devs are doing the best they can. They’re a tiny team surviving on grants, trying to produce software that the users, for some reason, expect to have feature parity with reddit, a large corporation with a large paid dev team. It’s weird to say the least.

      My understanding is that nutomic and dessalines survive solely on that 4000 euros per month, because all of their time goes to lemmy. How do you want them to survive? They need to eat and pay rent, you know. The real world exists and they’re humans in it, needing food and sleep and shelter.

      It seems to me you want magic. You don’t want the lemmy devs to be humans, you want them to be magic coder gods who are infinitely patient, with boundless time and energy. But that’s completely unrealistic, you surely must see that, right?

    • sunaurus@lemm.ee
      231·
      9 months ago

      Sorry if you were just making a joke, my sarcasm detector is not really working anymore (/s at the end would help). But if not, this comment really perfectly captures the entitlement in open source.

      Now imagine you spend months (or even years) of your free time to build something for people to use freely, and the result is that you get endless comments from random strangers, telling you that you work for them and that you need to respect and be grateful to them. I honestly am impressed that open source still exists at all at this point.

      • Microw@lemm.ee
        22·
        9 months ago

        I think it’s a question of philosophy. If I take donations for something, is it really still my hobby projects I build in my free time?

        Not really IMO. The moment I make money off it, it’s more than that.

        And if I have a community of people who use that project, I should be transparent with them and engage with them. Maybe the Lemmy devs are doing this in some place where I’m not (like on their matrix), but I have never seen them explain why they are working on certain features and not on others. Their development updates are awesome and I appreciate them, but it’s very much a communication of “we are doing this, see you next time”. The recent AMA was a good example of engagement that gives the possibility to explain things better and get into contact. My advice would be to work on communication and feedback channels.

        But everyone is free to see that differently.

    • Venia Silente@lemm.eeEnglish
      135·
      9 months ago

      Stop being so ungrateful and disrespectful to the community that you work for.

      Fam, this is Free Software. Capitalism is that way → www.reddit.com .