cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/8349829
> Hello, > > We're looking for GoLang contributors to help with the federation service. We're happy to have people that contribute code or help with code reviews. > > If you know anyone or if you're interested please reach out! > > Email: hello@sublinks.org > Mastodon: https://utter.online/@sublinks > Online form: https://sublinks.org/join_organization.html > > Thanks, > jgrim
Hello,
We're looking for GoLang contributors to help with the federation service. We're happy to have people that contribute code or help with code reviews.
If you know anyone or if you're interested please reach out!
Email: hello@sublinks.org Mastodon: https://utter.online/@sublinks Online form: https://sublinks.org/join_organization.html
Thanks, jgrim
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/16013932
> Linus Tech Tips (LTT) release investigation results on former accusations > > There were a series of accusations about our company last August from a former employee. Immediately following these accusations, LMG hired Roper Greyell - a large Vancouver-based law firm specializing in labor and employment law, to conduct a third-party investigation. Their website describes them as “one of the largest employment and labour law firms in Western Canada.” They work with both private and public sector employers. > > To ensure a fair investigation, LMG did not comment or publicly release any data and asked our team members to do the same. Now that the investigation is complete, we’re able to provide a summary of the findings. > > The investigation found that: > > - Claims of bullying and harassment were not substantiated. > > - Allegations that sexual harassment were ignored or not addressed were false. > > - Any concerns that were raised were investigated. Furthermore, from reviewing our history, the investigator is confident that if any other concerns had been raised, we would have investigated them. > > - There was no evidence of “abuse of power” or retaliation. The individual involved may not have agreed with our decisions or performance feedback, but our actions were for legitimate work-related purposes, and our business reasons were valid. > > - Allegations of process errors and miscommunication while onboarding this individual were partially substantiated, but the investigator found ample documentary evidence of LMG working to rectify the errors and the individual being treated generously and respectfully. When they had questions, they were responded to and addressed. > > In summary, as confirmed by the investigation, the allegations made against the team were largely unfounded, misleading, and unfair. > > With all of that said, in the spirit of ongoing improvement, the investigator shared their general recommendation that fast-growing workplaces should invest in continuing professional development. The investigator encouraged us to provide further training to our team about how to raise concerns to reinforce our existing workplace policies. > > Prior to receiving this report, LMG solicited anonymous feedback from the team in an effort to ensure there was no unreported bullying and harassment and hosted a training session which reiterated our workplace policies and reinforced our reporting structure. LMG will continue to assess ongoing continuing education for our team. > > At this time, we feel our case for a defamation suit would be very strong; however, our deepest wish is to simply put all of this behind us. We hope that will be the case, given the investigator’s clear findings that the allegations made online were misrepresentations of what actually occurred. We will continue to assess if there is persistent reputational damage or further defamation. > > This doesn’t mean our company is perfect and our journey is over. We are continuously learning and trying to do better. Thank you all for being part of our community.
It will work with Voyager. I also use that app and will make sure. All apps that work with Lemmy should work with Sublinks.
It's actually extremely buggy. Not sure if we'll fix it or find something else. Perhaps something you suggested.
I setup https://github.com/deck9/input on polls.sublinks.org. We’ll use this next time.
I setup https://github.com/deck9/input on polls.sublinks.org. We'll use this next time.
It's a reputable web development language and Spring Framework is very robust. I knew it would make development very quick and easy. Also, everyone learns Java just a little so I feel like it's easy for the average person to contribute. Rust is certainly fun but Java is tried and true. The organization of the Lemmy project's code vs Sublinks is night and day. It's so easy to extend and grow Sublinks.
Easier but not what I thought was needed. We need more choice!
That's not true, I wrote a blog post about it: https://jasongr.im/blog/why-i-started-sublinks/
I tried that the but API lacked a lot of features that they were too busy to add, like proper pagination to find the latest changes, etc. I started a project like that first called socialcare.cloud but have since shut it down in favor of Sublinks.
Java isn't my preferred language. I did learn Rust to try to contribute but found the code base in less than ideal state and the process of contributing to risky. They don't always accept all PRs. I also have low faith in the success of Lemmy due to it's poor QA process and it's major lack of features.
I believe Java is the best option for this type of application, I almost did it in PHP. My goal was to attract as many people as possible to want to contribute. It's worked, I have a ton of people contributing in some way, Sublinks roadmap is clear and organized, and we have a super-motivated and driven team.
We won't fail.
I was hoping not to have to host it myself. I won't need it often. I was mostly curious about a Saas. Thanks though!
Is there a better form service to be used? We used it because it comes free with our email.
Yeah, that's a good callout. Thanks, we're working on redoing reporting and have a more traditional table/grid like layout for mulit-select.
Mostly the v0.2 release which has a major focus on moderation enhancements. Some things might be delayed, removed, or added to releases due to the feedback.
No, it will help our development be more focused on the highest-impact items. It should allow for a more organized and targeted release timeline.
cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/6776820
> The Sublinks team has written up a little survey, which we feel is both thorough and inclusive. It covers a wide range of topics, such as user privacy, and community engagement, along with trying to gauge things that are difficult when moderating. > > Also please be aware the information collected by this survey is completely anonymous. As many of us in the social sciences background know, if you want the REAL feelings of individuals, they need to feel safe to express themselves. > > 👉Moderation Survey HERE👈 > > Please feel free to comment in this thread, we will do our best to respond to any genuine questions. > > We look forward to hearing from each and every one of you! > > Sincerely, > The Sublinks Team
cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/6776820
> The Sublinks team has written up a little survey, which we feel is both thorough and inclusive. It covers a wide range of topics, such as user privacy, and community engagement, along with trying to gauge things that are difficult when moderating. > > Also please be aware the information collected by this survey is completely anonymous. As many of us in the social sciences background know, if you want the REAL feelings of individuals, they need to feel safe to express themselves. > > 👉Moderation Survey HERE👈 > > Please feel free to comment in this thread, we will do our best to respond to any genuine questions. > > We look forward to hearing from each and every one of you! > > Sincerely, > The Sublinks Team
The Sublinks team has written up a little survey, which we feel is both thorough and inclusive. It covers a wide range of topics, such as user privacy, and community engagement, along with trying to gauge things that are difficult when moderating.
Also please be aware the information collected by this survey is completely anonymous. As many of us in the social sciences background know, if you want the REAL feelings of individuals, they need to feel safe to express themselves.
Please feel free to comment in this thread, we will do our best to respond to any genuine questions.
We look forward to hearing from each and every one of you!
Sincerely, The Sublinks Team
Hello,
I made a lot of adjustments to the infrastructure to Discuss.Online. Please let me know if you notice any strange behavior or federation issues.
Thanks a lot, jgrim
cross-posted from: https://literature.cafe/post/7623713
> I made a blog post discussing my biggest issues with Lemmy and why I am kind of done with it as a software.
ATTENTION: There is a known issue with the database cluster for discuss.online. It's a managed cluster by #DigitalOcean. They are working on resolving the issue. I'll update you once the issue is resolved.
You might see strange errors like the inability to log in or view specific posts.
Update 03/01/2024 @ 9:40 pm ET: The database has been migrated to a new server. Please, let us know if you experience any issues.
New: Last Week in #Fediverse - ep 53 This week's news: - a closer look at the upcoming project @bonfire@indieweb.social - Threads adds quote posting to their ActivityPub implementation - @sublinks@utter.online is a new link aggregating platform that recently started development As well as a whole...
We are thrilled to announce the upcoming release of Sublinks, a groundbreaking Link Aggregation Social Network, joining the Fediverse. This innovative platform is designed to revolutionize how we share and discover online. Our dedicated team of volunteer contributors has worked tirelessly, utilizing technologies like Java, Go, TypeScript, and HTML to bring this vision to life. Sublinks promises a user-friendly interface and robust features that cater to diverse online communities. Stay tuned for our launch date, and get ready to experience a new era of social link sharing!
Sublinks will have a fully compatible API with Lemmy so all current Lemmy apps will also work with Sublinks. In fact, discuss.online will switch to Sublinks to fully replace Lemmy once we reach our Parity Milestone.
For more information, visit GitHub - Sublinks and sublinks.org.
Stay tuned for more regular updates as we progress.
This is the first of the monthly financial reports. This one is short and sweet; I'll provide more details next time.
These costs include hosting for:
- discuss.online (lemmy)
- discuss.online (matrix)
- wiki.discuss.online (open wiki)
- utter.online (mastodon)
- social.photo (pixelfed)
- Sublinks.org (sublinks)
- participating.online(wiki)
Expenses for November
- Hosting: $575.32
- Github: $436.16
- Email: $21.45
- Total: $1,032.93
Income for November
- OpenCollective: $65
- Patreon: $15.11
- Total: $80.11
Year-to-date
- Year-to-date total expenses: $4,087.63
- Year-to-date total income: $454.77
- Year-to-date balance: -$3632.86
Donations... if you can spare it
Lemmy doesn't provide any analytics. Give this post a like and/or comment if you use this instance. I'm trying to gauge usage by humans.
I'll let this census run for about a week to gauge usage.
Results might cause different changes to the services.
I'm doing this because the cost of running this instance is higher than most other instances due to reliability and disaster recovery implementations. I'm curious if I should back down many of these costs if we're not used fully. I don't see much activity directly in this instance.
I know that discuss.online wasn't listed on join-lemmy.org for about a month due to a bug with the Lemmy crawler. They just recently fixed it with their redesign. We are now listed but no longer featured.
tl;dr; is this instance dying? Let me know if you're here.
We are running the latest release candidate for Lemmy, version 0.19.0-rc.1. This release candidate includes many changes.
Every release comes with its own challenges; however, it resolves previous ones. We hope this release will resolve a longstanding issue with sync not working, causing a lot of manual work from the admins to keep things in sync.
Please let us know if you experience any weird behavior.
Some known issues so far are:
- HTML entities characters in posts bodies (Changing & to &)
- The
spoilertag crashes the site if used in the sidebar - Mobile apps are borked again
Update 10/25/2023
- We are now running release candidate 3.
The decentralized Instagram alternative is a great option if you want to back up your feed, focus on photo-sharing, or cut loose from Meta's empire entirely. And making the leap is surprisingly easy.
Seems fitting to share this now that Social.Photo is live. It’s our newest addition to the fediverse.
We launched a new Pixelfed instance. This is a newly growing community. Most Mastodon Apps work with it if you already have a favorite app like Ivory by Tapbots. They have a PixelFed official app that is about to launch.
Checkout Social.Photo today!
We now have a Pixelfed instance. Check it out!
Social.Photo. Signup is open!
jgrim of Sublinks @discuss.online Site admin for discuss.online.
Founder of Sublinks
I'm a web developer, sysadmin, and entrepreneur by trade.
I do photography, PC gaming, 3D Printing, and maker projects for fun.
More here: https://jasongr.im