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YSK: Lemmy has 53k monthly active users but only 1172 have ever donated (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/16660104

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[+] [email protected] -17 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

How am I supposed to donate to a project that forces me to select the language at the end of each post?

Fucks sake, is it that hard to have a dropdown under settings for the default language?

And to be fair, what's the point? The people running the biggest instances will eventually sell all their user's data to train LLMs anyways. There's no guarantee they won't.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Since all instances mirror comments on subscribed communities you could simply create your own instance, leech it all and sell to LLMs. No need to go to the trouble of hosting a large instance.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Or that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Fucks sake, is it that hard to have a dropdown under settings for the default language?

There is a language setting. Also, you don't have to select a language, it's optional.

The people running the biggest instances will eventually sell all their user’s data to train LLMs anyways.

Pure speculation, no evidence.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

There is a language setting. Also, you don’t have to select a language, it’s optional.

See you don't know what you're talking about:

I've my languages selected yet there's no option for a default language.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

@TCB13 @CowsLookLikeMaps I sympathise, but perhaps they could fix that and many other issues if they had more funding. If it was already perfect, they would have less need for funding, I suppose.