Their success is relatively easy to measure objectively by their effectiveness at protecting communities from i.e. subtle trolls or troll enablers.
Though one's opinion on topics can influence the ability to spot such scum in the moment, the "right" people/a good moderator will know how to do that despite their topical (dis)agreements.
You'd typically think the abuse that happens on a higher level than dumb spam which those platforms succumb to would be even worse, but I feel we're somehow in a slightly better position to regulate that on Lemmy because of the delegation of moderation to users rather than instance admins.
We "just" need a relatively small amount of the "right" people to effectively counter that.
That would be a reasonable explanation if we didn't get an admission this was done very much intentionally so, with only the inability to even build being an unintended side-effect from the founder and CTO himself.
I'd invite you to actually read the two comments they made in the thread I linked, I get the feeling that you didn't.
Two posts up from what I posted: https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/issues/11611#issuecomment-2424865225
Hi @brjsp, Thanks for sharing your concerns here. We have been progressing use of our SDK in more use cases for our clients. However, our goal is to make sure that the SDK is used in a way that maintains GPL compatibility.
- the SDK and the client are two separate programs
- code for each program is in separate repositories
- the fact that the two programs communicate using standard protocols does not mean they are one program for purposes of GPLv3
Being able to build the app as you are trying to do here is an issue we plan to resolve and is merely a bug.
Nah it's not news that their ethos has been fading away for a long time now and that Mozilla just really isn't what it used to be a decade ago.
I find Lemmy in general tends to lean quite authoritarian autocracy-ish; that feels more like a reflection of the general user base.
I don't like that in the slightest to be clear but I do think it's true.
Right now, it's definitely a good thing it's not popular. We are not in any way shape or form ready for the spam that popular platforms receive.
“Oh, but there are no journalists!”
Good? I don’t want endless ragebait posted in my feeds.
I don't think that's the kind of "journalism" your strawman desires.
This is the Mozilla foundation, not the Mozilla corp. The latter has the deal with Google; the former couldn't make that deal even if they wanted to.
the idea of putting people before profit feels increasingly radical
What. The. Fuck.
What's wrong with lemmy.ml? It's a pretty generalist instance if you ask me. The only issue I have with it is that it doesn't block obvious troll instances like lemmygrad or the one that's even worse by default but you can do that yourself these days.
That will only work if it is reproducible. Given that it downloads random shit from the internet, that's unlikely.
To package this properly, you need to build a derivation that can use a lock file to bundle the deps into some sort of stable format. This is how go's vendoring works.