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  • nutomicOPMAtoIbisIbis version 0.1.4
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    24 days ago

    In case of Lemmy most initial users came from subreddits that were banned, specifically communist ones. But that is unlikely to work for Ibis, as people banned from Wikipedia have many alternatives such as setting up Mediawiki. Other people who joined Lemmy early were excited about the technology, and open source in general (which is why those topics are still so popular). So open source and fediverse enthusiasts are more likely to join.

    Besides Ibis is still in a very early stage, so far there are not even any mod tools or account settings. So for the moment its more important to get programmers, designers, testers and other contributors to develop the project. Once some of these major features are implemented, it will make more sense for general users to join. But I dont have a specific plan for growth, hopefully growth will simply happen organically over time like it did with Lemmy.






  • nutomicAtoF-DroidSyncthing for Android discontinued
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    1 month ago

    What a shame, I spent a lot of time working on syncthing-android (probably around four years). But in the end I stopped for the same reason, it’s very demotivating to be so reliant on a corporation like Google which is entirely indifferent or even hostile to open source apps. Every year with the new Android version there are new required features or mandatory changes to implement, and if you don’t comply they don’t allow publishing new app versions. That’s not a big deal for commercial apps with fulltime developers, but it’s a lot of work for small apps maintained by volunteers. And it’s never anything that would benefit syncthing-android or it’s users, just busywork that takes away from bug fixes and feature development.

    The good thing about open source is that someone else can always pickup and continue the work. Google’s shenanigans were what drove me to server administration and backend development, which finally led me to work on Lemmy. The experience with syncthing-android definitely taught me a lot about how to run a popular open source project.



  • nutomicOPAtoFediverseIbis version 0.1.2
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    1 month ago

    Right I will also have to make a template with these common parts of the release announcement. Instance blocking is not implemented yet, but it uses the same federation library as Lemmy so that will be easy to add when its needed.