The options for trolly problems are usually “pull” and “don’t pull”, but this one needs “guard the lever with my life to make sure nobody fucking pulls it”
felsiq
joined 5 months ago
Huh I haven’t tried the search, but otherwise haven’t noticed any of those problems - one of the reasons I like it more than discord is actually how much more responsive and less bloated it is. I use element as a client and a smaller homeserver, but even messaging people from other homeservers it’s been very solid for me. Sorry to hear your experience with it has been worse
What makes it terrible? I’ve been really enjoying it, I actually prefer it to discord even aside from privacy/morality aspects
I see it as the literal definition of horseshoe theory but actually applicable for once, where (in this one instance) the far left and right are more similar than different (same words, different flag), but judging from the reaction what I meant to say is not how it came across lol
I try to support all the open source projects I regularly use with small but recurring (ie predictable) amounts. Liberapay is great for this, but not everybody is on it yet unfortunately.
Some of the projects:
- Arch - no easy way for recurring donations but every time the aur has gone down when I needed it during the recent attacks on archlinux.org I just go throw a financially unwise amount of money at them again to spite the attackers
- KDE - I don’t even use plasma anymore (switched to hyprland but I’ve heard enough of the controversies that I’m not donating to them lol) but I still love KDE
- codeberg - they host a lot of my projects so at the least I wanna cover what I cost them plus a bit
- matrix.org and my matrix server specifically - both put out great services for free and my homeserver specifically hosts the absolute fuckton of pictures and videos I regularly send/receive so I owe them a lot
- piefed - piefed is sick as fuck and @rimu does a good job
- lemmy.zip/piefed.zip - great homeserver and extremely transparent
- voyager - my fav piefed app so far, and hopefully with more donations it’ll get even better
- probably more I’m forgetting rn
I’m not sure this last one counts as an NPO but it’s relevant here so I’m including it anyway: @dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world puts out the best OC I’ve come across on lemmy so sometimes I throw money his way to help pay for knives lmao.
For anyone else who wants to support the projects they use and keep the internet free, definitely check out liberapay. It’s still a bit clunky, but it lets me budget a monthly amount I can afford and then split it however I want among all the projects I use no matter what that overall amount is. Smaller donations can be paid in lump sums for many months to cut down on processing fees, and liberapay tracks it for you and more importantly lets the recipient know what the giving schedule is so the project/person you support can have a clear budget rather than unpredictable bursts of money with no guarantee there’ll ever be more coming.
If it’s not clear yet I’m super passionate about liberapay and also donate to them 😂
And I appreciate your content, I still remember your hyprland setup tipping me over the edge to finally go down the window manager rabbit hole 😂