People do not even notice things more complicated than buttons “join”, “login”, or “post”. They are lost on join-lemmy.org because >they don’t know why they should choose a server, read description, understand whatever is federation, and they’ll prefer going back >to their comfort zone.

Agree on this 100%. When I first found Lemmy I had no idea what instance to join, why it matter, or… why it really didn’t matter all that much… It was just confusing… and the first instance I joined ended up closing… which was less than an ideal experience as it was without notice and the instance just disappeared. Took me days to even find out why they had closed. Then took me several more days to find the next instance to join.

Federation is both a weakness and a strength in that there may be people who get turned off by that initial complexity.

Then, some people who join may see low volumes on communities they care about and end up not joining.

I think the ideal would be not how to make it “like Reddit”, but how to help niche and smaller communities have more members. Unfortunately, I think the easiest way is just to get more users to Lemmy in general.

It is not just niche topics, I find quite a bit of things that are not (in my opinion) niche, yet there is very little participation in Lemmy. Take for for example Postgresql. By now it is one of the most widely used databases yet there is a minuscule number of posts and users in the related communities.

Another example. Just did a search for largest communities in Reddit… One of them is music with an estimated 38 million redditors. In Lemmy the largest two music communities seem to be 9.9K (!music@lemmy.world) and 18.9K (!music@hexbear.net). That is an astronomical difference for something that is as mainstream as it gets given the broad topic.

I think the best each one of us can do is to participate and post as often as possible in the communities we would like to see grow.

I would say that you may consider first getting a clearer idea of what you want. For example

• You want some side work to generate some income?
• You want to explore doing consulting for a living?
• You want to find a project, or projects, that you can work on that produce revenue?

From what you wrote I think the fact that you work on so many things may be keeping you from been good at any of them. I recently saw an interview of the founder of Vercel. By the time he was in high school he was already getting job offers because he became know for been good at what he was doing.

I would suggest to try and get clarity on what you want and also remember that this is not a once in a lifetime decision… you can say “hey I want to try X…” and then after you actually try it realize is not what you wanted and then move to something else; the may takeaway is that trying to do lots of unrelated things likely will not help you achieve your goals… unless you could use all those contributions in open source as reference when applying to a job.

The issue is that anyone who looks objectively at the technology knows that AI / LLMs can’t replace knowledge workers in a large set of tasks, yet you see week after week… month after month the pattern

• Some new company says going to replace x% of employees with AI…
• X weeks / months later… said company reports the attempt was a failure and are having to hire people back

It is as the thought of saving the money of firing all those people is too much to resist for “top management”.

You would think after the first batch of companies go through the same, other companies would learn, yet I just keep seeing the same happen again and again.

There is also the potential backslash. Specially if “management” is dumb enough to try and present firing hundreds / thousands of people like a a good thing… for example Duolingo’s case

It has been months since orignal post… Is Reddit still the only source of the suggestions? How does the program validates this is an idea worth of consideration? Number of comments in the post?

of four companies I have created over 30+ years 2 used laywers and 2 just used some service. The only difference I ever saw what that that I paid much more when I used lawyers.

Unless you are in some specialized field don’t see much advantage of using a law firm to do an S corp / LLC.

Additionally, he wouldn’t need the sponsored content if what he is saying is true. I would not watch any more of his videos based on this one

I don’t agree with that. I tried, and failed miserably, on a project years ago. Since then, I’ve been trying to learn as much as possible about marketing and getting customers as I start my second attempt at creating a SaaS. One thing I’ve noticed from people actually making money with their SaaS is that content is one of the best ways to get people to use whatever new thing you’re building.

I’ve also seen videos (some with numbers, even if I don’t know the sources) claiming that a lot of people are moving toward podcasts and videos, and blogs don’t have the same pull anymore. Plus, videos and podcasts can keep bringing in business for years, even after you stop making them.

Sure, there are probably people who had an exit and just retired to do nothing, but I’ve seen many who just move on to the next thing. Take Mitchell Hashimoto, one of the founders of HashiCorp. He left the company he helped build, has an estimated net worth of over $100 million, and what does he do next? He writes a terminal program called Ghostty. That just shows that even if you succeed financially, it doesn’t mean you stop working. So it’s totally possible that people on YouTube who are promoting something in their videos and talking about past successes actually did have those successes and are just working on their next project.

New to this community and see quite a bit of downvotes with often zero comments explaining why and I have to wonder what is exactly is the reason for the downvotes. For example the link in this post is to a channel I am familiar with and although I don’t think is the best source for ideas, or completely agree with the youtuber methology, I persoanlly don’t think it is spam or completely useless.

If nothing else, this is someone who is making and has made more money that most solopreneurs (including myself) in his projects.

Have not tried opencloud yet, but one thing that I find interesting is that it doesn’t need a DB. Plan to test. Currently have nextcloud and find the installation a bit of a pain.

My take on the scoring

Very Easy: Multiple easy install methods (e.g., one-command OS package, single binary, and/or Docker). If only one install method it should be single binary or OS package. Great documentation. 18–20 points

Easy: Limited easy methods or only one. Some configuration may be needed, good documentation. 15–17 points

Moderate: Docker is the only method or manual setup. Average to pool documentation 11–14 points

Hard: Complex setup, needs regular updates or custom config (e.g. DNS, spam) 6–12 points

Very Hard or Proprietary: Little to no self-hosting support, undocumented 0–5 points

Have you considered a distributed filesystem such as GlusterFS or DRBD? I believe those support synchronous replication so writes will go to all the configured machines before acknowledging the write. Performance will likely take a hit the greater the number of clusters in the cluster.

Remember wifi can be an issue, even if you don’t have anything exposed outside. If you have a router that comes with a weak password ensure you have changed it.

Full points for Docker

In my opinion anything that only has docker installation should have points removed. Having it as an option is fine,but having it as the only option has several issues

1- Not every OS even has docker. Take for example FreeBSD

2- Many, non technical, people may not have or even know what Docker is. Having it as the only install option actually ads complexity for that group of people

3- Having to install docker for only one system that you want to install adds an entire layer of complexity and in some cases may even outright discourage someone from installing some software

And post as much disinformation as they want without “censorship”.

I use it to track everything…

Quick notes knowledgebase Follow up (personal and work)

The great thing about Obsidian is how flexible it is. The bad thing about Obsidian is how flexible it is… 😀

I have seen may people comment, or outright leave, Obsidian because because there was too much to learn… or too many plugins to explore…

Personally, I only look for plugins if I need something specific. Don’t see the point of trying random plugins. Is like spending time finding solutions to a problem you may not have…

Also, I work on tech and many documents are in markdown. Obsidian makes it easier to read those. Specially the collapse / expand functionality is really great for exploring large docs… as long as the creators properly used sections (basically # for level 1, ## for level 2…and so on)

I use Obsidian between Ubuntu and IOS… Sync is a bit erratic… It always… eventually, refreshes, but have not been able to find how to force sync on IOS. Sometimes end up doing trivial changes to see if can get the sync on IOS to trigger.

Ubuntu client shows when it does sync and it does appear to do it fairly quick.

Obsidian with paid sync feature. Have obsidian on multiple computers and devices and don’t have to deal with setup or management of the sync process.

The rest seem to be something moderation may help

Who will moderate? If it is a distributed system and moderation is also distributed bad actors can automate upvotes or whatever means we use for moderation to keep their bad content up.

Some of the ways abuse can happen

• Crawling false data / misinformation on a topic
• Putting info on search as part of a scam / spam campaign
• Putting false news about events that are happening, or have not happened at all
• Putting false information about a business competitor
• Putting fake reviews about a product

Just a few that I can think off… existing websites have the issues too, but what is different is how existing sites decide relevance and how often said algorithms weed out the bad content . In my opinion a distributed search engine will have a harder time at combating those, and other potentials for abuse, because there is less control about what is getting scanned there is an open policy of who can join the distributed scanning.

community for commercial sysadmin type stuff, but the ones I’ve seen are all pretty dead Why not just start putting links / posts to make those active. I am planning to do this for a Postgresql feed.