Appreciate the thorough explanations, thanks!

The last part is fucked up, yikes…

Thanks for the explanation. Makes sense for targeted ads for sure. Still a bit worried about hashtags being used for ads since I follow a lot of hashtags on mastodon and usually have a quite a nice “organic” feed compared to other social media.

Might be a stupid question, but can’t threads just post ads as “posts” via activityPub? On mastodon they would appear as toots?

Was just remembering how reddit introduced ads as basically promoted posts and recall facebook doing the same.

I sure fucking hope not.

I believe so aswell, but there is lemmy.ml for example, which apparently is meant to stand for “marxism-leninism” in that specific instance (.ml is Mali’s country TLD).

Oh no, not sure I want that.

The reason I’m not sure, is because I woke up at 5 am to do my morning run while making cold calls and preparing to open another business because my baby was born 2 hours before and taught me about B2B marketing in AI powered age.

If you want to hear more, hit me up with a DM!

Archived link for those of us who need it: https://archive.is/9RnKc

IIRC two letter domains are reserved for country specific domains, the non-country domains start with three letters.

Very true!

I’m not quite that organized,

I’ve donated around 2 euros to huge projects like Wikipedia when they have a donation campaign, or 20 euros to projects like draw.io when I notice on github that they haven’t met their monthly goal yet.

The amount and frequency completely depends on my financial situation at the time and I only donate when I am using a piece of software/project (so when I remember, basically) on my free time and decide to check updates/state of the project.

So I’m not a frequent donor to any specific projects and several months may pass without donating any money, but when I have a bit more disposable income and when I’m doing free-time computer related hobbies I take a sum (lets say 50e) and distribute that money depending on project size. Smaller projects get more (less likely to have a lot of donors) big projects less (hopefully they have a lot of people donating small amounts that add up).

Some executive reading your comment right now:

Agreed, but I must admit I haven’t dug deeper so I have no clue.

IIRC lemmy.ml is the showcase server for lemmy software as a whole, so the organizations and individual donors who fund lemmy development also fund lemmy.ml

They mention the bigger donors here

Might be pulling this out of my ass, but I recall that one of the platinum donors gets their money to fund open-source software from EU.

+1 for voyager. I like other apps too but voyager has felt like a fresh breeze.

Off-topic but don’t want that link go to waste: your link is broken! (very cool project btw)

I would have given it a go, but reading their terms it seems they don’t like people having non-foss code there, and I would like to have both my foss and non-foss projects together on one platform.

I’ve been thinking about self-hosting forgejo though!

Edit: I did move from GitHub to GitLab, but don’t really wanna stay on GitLab either.

I also use lemmy (voyager app is awesome) but kbin also has an awesome app called Artemis, which got inspired by apollo for reddit.

Didn’t know about this project, thanks for the tip!

Loved Kbin, but yeah the slow development made me come back to lemmy as well.

Agreed. It’s so much more interesting and feels very alive. Also the barrier of commenting is way lower than on other platforms, but I don’t exactly know why.