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this post was submitted on 05 Apr 2024
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this is FreeAssembly, a non-toxic design, programming, and art collective. post your share-alike (CC SA, GPL, BSD, or similar) projects here! collaboration is welcome, and mutual education is too.
in brief, this community is the awful.systems answer to Hacker News. read this article for a solid summary of why having a less toxic collaborative community is important from a technical standpoint in addition to a social one.
some posting guidelines apply in addition to the typical awful.systems stuff:
- all types of passion projects and contributions are welcome, including and especially those that aren't programming or engineering in nature
- this is an explicitly noncommercial, share-alike space
- don't force yourself to do work you don't enjoy, or demand it of others
(logo credit, with modifications by @dgerard@awful.systems)
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one for the FAQs:
Q. Why a fork? Why not just contribute to Lemmy upstream?
A. The Lemmy devs aggressively don't want to hear from Lemmy site admins about problems, and frequently don't seem to understand the problems. Many site admins have tried to work with the project and given up in frustration.
e.g.
https://wedistribute.org/2024/03/lemmy-image-problem/
https://lemmy.ml/post/12829700
https://my.jewy.blog/my-love-hate-relationship-with-lemmy
https://lemmy.ml/comment/8968867
https://literature.cafe/post/7623718
We appreciate and are grateful for the Lemmy developers' considerable efforts to build discussion forum software that works well enough to sustain a social network. However, the practical issues with direct contribution remain.
As Lemmy developer nutomic said (archive):
We are taking him up on this offer.
Our code remains under the same license (AGPL 3) and is fully available for reuse by the upstream project, or anyone else.
but you see, you can't get modtools, because nutomic has a critically important task of creating tankie wikipedia