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Cake day: March 30th, 2024

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  • As a ‘last resort’ if you don’t find any technical tasks in the projects you’d like to contribute to, there’s also plenty of other ways to help:

    • Provide new translations into foreign languages
    • Create detailed bug reports
    • Do in-depth tests of new beta versions or nightly builds
    • Provide a download mirror for the software or seed it via torrent
    • Donate money to the core maintainers
    • Improve the documentation
    • Create (video) tutorials to improve the start for other users and make the software known to a broader audience
    • Register in forums and help other users with their issues

    Or simply ask the maintainers how you might contribute in a meaningful way. I’m sure they’ll appreciate your offer!






  • Unlike others, I’d expect a signicifant decline of posts as not only many users but also loads of communities would be lost. That’s why from my perspective users and communities should be evenly distributed across instances.

    On top of that, there should be a feature to move entire accounts or communities to other instances. That way a community including all its members could just be migrated before a major shutdown.

    Similarly, I think it would be a huge disturbance for the email system and possibly the entire internet world-wide if Gmail went down next month even though there are in theory plenty of alternative providers. Or supermarkets. If the IT of Walmart, Visa/MasterCard, Amazon AWS, Microsoft etc. have an outage it always has huge impact.

    Lemmy as a whole isn’t that big and far from being critical infrastructure but we all want it to grow we should bear in mind that huge central services are always more risky than many small services.



    1. Newer washing machines vary in time depending on how dirty your clothes are. So the same program may take 50 minutes or 90 minutes. This cannot be solved with a regular timer.

    2. If you have a job with varying hours, you might want to start the washing mashine when you’re heading home. Then you’re clothes are ready to be hung as you arrive and they aren’t laying around for hours.

    3. If you own photovoltaic, you might want to time energy intense home appliances such as washing machines, dish washers etc. to a period of overproduction.

    Not saying, these issues are super important but there definitely are use cases for smart devices. However, I’d always recommend using a local / self-hosted rather than a cloud-based solution.