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YSK: Lemmy has 53k monthly active users but only 1172 have ever donated

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

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  • 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.

    • ...Some people use their account for multiple languages.

      Majority of people in this world speaks two languages or more.

      • Majority of people in this world speaks two languages or more.

        And that's exactly the point, I do too. However most of what I post is English and lemmy should have a "default post language" option to avoid that issue. I'm happy with changing the language to anything other than English on the 20% of the time I'm not writing in English however I'm not happy to have to pick English around 80% of the time. See the problem now?

    • 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.

    • 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.

      • 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.

    • @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.

    • I couldn't agree more.

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