Its important to keep in mind that Lemmy is provided for free and as-is. It also hasnt reached version 1.0 yet so obviously there are still many features missing. Yet there are tens of thousands of users and hundreds of admins who are happy with Lemmy in its current state.

To continue with the analogy, if the Lemmy playground is not safe enough for your particular neighborhood, you have a few different choices:

Wait for someone else to solve the problem (but this may take very long or forever)
Solve the problem yourself, or pay someone to do it
Use a different type of playground instead

Beehaw in particular has $5,470 in donation balance. This would cover my income for around 2.5 months. They could easily take this money to hire a developer and implement the features they require. Yet they believe that they are somehow entitled to dictating what I or Dessalines should work on.

Edit: This doesn't mean that I don't care about implementing better mod tools, in fact if you look at the pull requests there have been numerous improvements in this area. But resources are limited and mod tools cannot be the only priority as some people seem to expect.

Edit 2: To be very clear, this comment is only aimed at Beehaw admins and a few other individuals who are extremely entitled and think they can dictate me to work on features they specifically want. The vast majority of users and admins on Lemmy are not like that, so of course my comment is not aimed at them and Im working hard every day to make Lemmy better for the majority. But that means I cant get distracted and waste time on features that only a tiny minority wants.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (12 children)

Use a different type of playground instead

It's obvious that people are indeed doing or thinking of doing just that. Don't get complacent just because things have not changed yet. There is a threshold to cross and once it crossed, things change very very fast. Currently there's no software out that is as mature as lemmy, but if the trust thermocline is breached, people will prefer to switch to something substandard than support a project they don't believe anymore.

Your biggest benefit as FOSS developers is your community goodwill. I can't stress enough how much you need to be careful on what you say and how you communicate to maintain it.

[–] THE_ANTIHERO@lemmy.today 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

Yeah i made a comment defending the devs just today now i am rethinking my stand and will have to edit it . But i can see both sides here and i find it much more pleasent when dessalines is involved in the conversation nutomic loves to defend himself from really small criticisms in rude ways i am not throwing shades here but maybe just take a breath nutomic ? Like we all do love lemmy and will stand with you even tho some won't but you are litterally chasing away the loyal ones .

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The only ones I want to chase away are those who somehow feel entitled to demand some specific work from me. But that is only a very small part of the userbase. I know Lemmy isn't perfect and I'm working every day to improve it. If anyone thinks that some area is not getting enough attention, they are welcome to make a pull request and I will happily review it to get the changes merged.

[–] THE_ANTIHERO@lemmy.today 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

And i do appreciate the work you put in like a lot i appreciate it a lot . But if you continue telling everyone giving feedback to go away there won't be anyone left and that is sad as i love lemmy and how good it is . I am not a hater its like getting angry when you are watching the thing you love slightly burn away you know.

And whenever i come across a rude user or beehaw admin demanding shit there are more downvotes on them and people do defend you and i am one of them so don't tell us to fuck off we care about lemmy as much as u do and i know you do too as you have spent almost five years on it i hope we can come to an aggreament and hopefully the past issues won't affect lemmy in the long run .

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Thanks for the support, I appreciate it and definitely don't want people like you to go away. However there has been a lot of negativity during the last week, so automatically my attitude also got more negative in general.

[–] THE_ANTIHERO@lemmy.today 7 points 8 months ago

I agree some people just leaves a sour taste in mouth but you do have to learn to differentiate between them and the normal ones and i am glad we have come to an agreement kudos .

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