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Yeah I mostly jumped headfirst into Affinity because it wasn’t subscription based!

So sad the Affinity suite isn’t on Linux

Eh its fair enough, but the actual process of OSS isn’t much different to just working software at a job.

Now finding a project to get your teeth stuck in, that’s a bit harder. But that’s less a technical skill and more about having enough introspection to figure out what you’d like to work on for free haha

This is an unusual question, but how have you been programming for four years and not know how OSS works?

Don’t you interact regularly with GitHub for work?

That’s lame. I just run my own instance. I’m based in Perth and the server itself is in Sydney, so nice and fast.

Related note, pictrs is super cool. Its like an OSS imgur backend, but no one really talks much about it or its potential.

Yep, so now its very difficult to run your own mailserver. Extrapolating this to Lemmy, I guess large instances will start autoblocking small instances by default.

What were the federation issues with aussie.zone?

Just the cheapest Digital Ocean instance that is on a 2 core CPU. It helps that its just me on there, so I don’t have to share with anyone… yet.

Eh you’re probably right, Lemmy web UI is actually pretty speedy and functional already

I’m selfhosting Lemmy and its SUPER fast. Just think of it more of a personal caching layer than anything else.

Now that I’m seeing more third party apps popping up, I wonder if there is appetite for a native desktop app

Hey, you should point out that Georgi Gerganov is a 100xer programmer and slapped together llama.cpp in a weeknd

The previous calls for forking were not convincing (political), but this post makes sense to, if the community is unable to contribute because of a lack of attention from external help.

I’m not sure if that’s the case and I’ll have to have a look myself.

I’m happy to contribute, and hopefully the process of new contributors (CONTRIBUTORS.md) is easy and straightforward, and the issues are triaged by someone dedicated, perhaps from the community.

Who are the other devs if they’re not listed?

Seriously? What language do you use? How much experience do you have?

If there was an easy solution that balanced decent UX and performance, we’d have it by now!