You don’t even need to go to the 90’s. E.g. RSS feeds were pretty much killed by EEE in mid-2000s. XMPP is another more recent victim.

Sweeney has had a chip on his shoulder with Linux for at least 15 years. It’s honestly a bit weird since if you look at stuff before around 2005, he had quite a different tone.

I’ve “debunked” Dialekt videos before. That channel is dangerous.

And it’s not dangerous because it would be strictly incorrect, but because they do not make their initial assumptions clear unless you watch more of their videos. They assume relative proper acceleration, which in mainstream science is currently treated mostly as “utter bollocks” as one friend of my put it.

The hostile takes against other channels is not helping either.

Oversimplification ahead.

Oauth is a solution when single provider offers many services.

Lemmy is a single service offered by many providers.

While you can work around some of that, that is still the essence of the “problem”.

I’m glad people want to conribute. But everybody has ideas.

You have to realise that “contributing an idea” for developers without any of your own work sounds awfully lot like asking people to work for you for free. That is not going to make you popular in FOSS circles. Most FOSS projects are undermanned as-is and maintaining is a thankless task.

Like others have said, the best way would be to just start coding it yourself. People see you put work into something, they can get more excited about it. Advertising is fine, but unless you have something to show, it’s unlikely to attract much attention.

There is a reason “a platform where regular people can suggest FOSS ideas to developers” doesn’t really exist. We have our own ideas, which take more time than we have already. A platform such as that would likely be full of people throwing out ideas and close to zero developers willing to work on them.

Yeah, agreed. There is an issue/feature request on Lemmy’s github for that so it’s probably going to receive some attention in the coming weeks.

On the issue with bots: Lemmy is more resistant to bot spam than reddit is, because of the federation.

If an instance becomes bot-ridden, it is likely to get defederated so the damage is mitigated and mostly localised to that single instance. Sure, if you were an user of that instance it will probably suck for you, but the larger community remains mostly unaffected.

From my own experience:

1. Start using open source stuff.
2. Get annoyed by lack of a feature / a bug / something
3. Fix it, without ever intending to upstream the changes
4. Notice somebody has made an issue about a thing you already fixed
5. Send the patches to upstream.
6. Repeat ad infinitum.

That’s pretty much how I’ve ended up contributing to a plethora of different stuff.