moroninahurry

Well spotted!

For one, I am ready to support developers. But this model of software development isn't going to work out. Doesn't matter to me if they figure out how to get paid, but this is 100% the foundation of an enshittification model. And being that it's software based around organizing communities... one thing people need to learn is that people move, communities do not. It's not worth the risk.

Could it be best way to provide legal liability for how to comply with vague and easy to misinterpret badly-written law is to have a process underway at your organization to examine it? Just move slowly till the bigger guys lawyers figure it out?

I'll take Things A School Shooter Says for $500, Alex

There is a TNG novel that features the Breen. I believe the suits are wired into their nervous systems and while they have diversity among them, I think 4 or 5 species in their confederation, they stay in suit as a way to unify without embracing diversity.

They're sort of like anti IDIC, so their suits that they are dependent on keep them homogenous enough to get along.

True but Heinlein's creations were just more focused versions of stuff from the pulp era 20 years earlier.

This one looks like the 2016 onward Doom suit.

Cooool. When I read the Starship Troopers book I always wished we had gotten to see the whole power suit thing.

Also you can download commet today and the alternative is promises.

The screen sharing for games is not bad, it depends what you're used to. I've had some Discord headaches before 2022, but game sharing was always the main thing they had even when almost nothing else worked that well.

Also depends on your connection. The shittification throttling on non Nitro accounts tends to screw me over at home.

With Matrix.org not only can you do this, you can actually log into your account from multiple devices and stream video from all of them simultaneously. My mind was blown. Multiple angles of my ugly mug, live.

The thing is if there are alternatives out there that are community driven, that's a much better option. I respect the developers plans for figuring out how to make this project sustainable for them, but this is a bad place to start from. Even Discord was less monetized at the start. These measures are no guarantee that enshittification isn't the path built into the foundation.

I really like this clone. My favorite that I would like to see succeed is Spacebar formerly Fosscord. That one is just about as stable as this but has a community behind it. Single developer projects can stall. Dev has a single life event and the whole ecosphere has to wait... dev never returns, etc.

IMO a happy medium would be if the software allowed self-hosters to monetize features to pay for the hosting. If you don't like it you can always self host.

Federated is the way to go surely. Both Spacebar and Fluxer have that in their long term roadmap.

The thing about built-in enshittification up front is that there is no guarantee that it doesn't get worse from there.

So there's not even a dev team for this open source project, and there's already a salary? How does that work for open contributions? Do contributors get paid or are we paying to lock the project into a single developer project?

This is a really bad place to start from. Even Discord was less commercial at launch.