Lemmy Apps

As a developer of a FOSS Lemmy client myself, this poll is really Inter (considering it's biased towards the "upvote" makes its negative score even more significant). I suspected it, seeing the low adoption of my app (which I blamed solely on myself thinking "it's a poorly made app"), but this is the confirmation.

People don't care whether their software is proprietary or not, even people on Lemmy who should be more sensitive to the topic. People don't care if they are tracked, displayed ads or have to pay for what should be a basic supply (like clean water or clean air). People want something which is "fancy" and make them feel like they "own" it and that ownership is linked to their status and ultimately to their ego.

I didn't want to get political but I'm a Lemmy user too so I kind of have to jump to the consequence: this must be another effect of the brainwashing of western capitalism. Plus my app sucks 😂

I'd be fine with either. From what I can tell most Lemmy apps are already FOSS so this is really just about the small % of them that are closed source.

The only closed source app I can think of offhand is Sync for Lemmy and they already have their own official Lemmy community.

Thanks for asking the community about this. Here’s my two cents:

• Many companies and developers choose paid, closed-source, or partially closed-source models without any malicious intent, tracking, or advertising. Restricting to FOSS will also choke out developers that are simply wishing to retain ownership of what they’ve created or wanting long-term sustainability.
• I’d suggest using StrawPoll or something else to keep voting fair. Votes affect post visibility, and some instances don’t have the option to downvote.
• I’d also love more of an introduction from our new mod (who you are, what interests you have, how you got here), especially seeing that your accounts are under 8 days old

I take issue with this voting system, as it will be skewed in favour of a narrow win for the upvote result.

Downvoting the post decreases visibility in most sorting algorithms. I would be curious to see the results if the upvote and downvote options were reversed.

Until Lemmy implements polls, a better method would have been to have two comments under this post which would be voted on, rather than making the post itself the poll.

Proprietary software is evil! Also if this poll ends up allowing it would you consider making another FOSS only community?

I think the best way to do it would be to CLEARLY mark the non-FOSS apps that get submitted; a kind of badge of shame.

based solely on the name it should include both, and if there is enough interest there could be a separate dedicated foss community.