Imagine sucking at even the most lucrative and simple business model. 2 million out of a Ponzi Scheme lmao.

At what page are we in the Hitler playbook?

Democrats! Get your pens ready. The time has come to send a serious letter.

For me the site is still online.

1. a registrar will not care about random abuse messages that do not show clear illegal behavior or is not signed by any lawyers office
2. even if the domain get’s blocked, how long does it take to set up a new one? How long does it take to set up 100 new ones?
3. activitypub is by default very vulnerable and inefficient. Sources are not validated and the protocol does not have any mechanisms to protect itself from such attacks.

That’s the thing. If you put the hands in front of your eyes, you actively try to ignore it. There is no way you did not come across zero information about the Israel/Palestine conflict in the past decades. This is why I say that if you have no opinion, you actively ignore the facts (for whatever reason), which automatically gives you a stance on the topic.

There is a difference between “I have no opinion” and “I am not so well informed to have a factual opinion, but my gut is telling me, that there is something bad happening and we should actually talk about it”

Ed is nothing but a coward.

If you don’t have an opinion about such a grave disaster, you have an opinion about it.

I was thinking about how I’d like to work on projects like these. Collaboration can be very fun and engaging. For this app, I am basically done already, so the next step is to verify if the features work with real people. If it turns out to be a success, I will come back to you and will open the doors happily, as two brains are always better than one.

Thanks a lot for sharing. I have a Community Manager background and also was a moderator at Jaumo. Having a place to engage can be fun, but I am not fully sure yet if people really want to do that, when they just want to date. I have to think about it and maybe I will add something as an optional feature.

One of the things I am doing is launching with a wait list, so that an area can populate first, before opening the gates. This avoids the problem of feeling alone.

Oh that scam happened to me personally, too. It is not just annoying, it is damaging people.

There is no option to go decentralized, as I have no incentive for others to spend computing power. Decentralized services are ideal for communication and I have also developed a fully peer-to-peer, end to end encrypted Discord alternative. I just didn’t want to release it yet, until someone verified the security layer. Other than that, I kinda need to have everything centralized to foster the community and to set the rules for that community.

As I am not investor backed and also don’t want to be, I focus on releasing in very specific locations at first to create revenue with small investments. It takes a bit longer, but the growth is more stable and more organic.

Good point. Men usually get contacted by a lot of “gold diggers” and content creators. Women often are targets from scammers or crypto bros.

Scammers can be avoided by using a mandated verification process. But here I don’t rely on a third party service, as privacy is a really important topic for me. I wouldn’t want users to be forced to upload sensitive data to Persona for example. This is why I have developed a small verification service, that applies some algorithms that have been working quite well according to the research papers. It will not be impossible to catch all scammers, but if 95% are cought, that’s already a big win. As for the other problem with people just trying to sell content, a working reporting system should help. The reporting systems of the current apps are majorly flawed, punishing legit people while protecting scammers. The reason is also gender based. The more women a dating app has, the more men are attracted, so women tend to get extra protection. That hurts the whole community.

As for the funding, this is such a difficult topic. The system costs money, so I need to get a bit of money back. I didn’t want any of the “pay to win” features. I also don’t want ads, not even sponsored content. As a video gamer, I tried then to figure out why free games such as Warframe or Path of Exile were earning so much money. It comes down to two things people are willing to pay for: Cosmetics and time-savers. So that’s what I now implemented. Decorate your profile with paid cosmetics. I don’t know how to implement the time-savers yet, so for now it is just cosmetics and an optional “buy me a beer” donation I offer.

I am currently developing one and what I can see is the following:

• people get treated like cash cows. It is almost not possible to successfully date without spending money
• people are burned out. The low quality swiping, matching, just to get ghosted, is hurting the motivation.
• people have other problems nowadays. COVID reshaped us completely. We don’t want to spend 2h a day on a dating app. 2h a week max and then they want to continue in real life.

Those are pain points introduced by big corpos (e.g. Match.com) and the fact, that they have launched their apps before COVID.

I have addressed those pain points.

Same shit, different day.

I can get that and I also prefer sticking to major versions. However, I am chaotic and easily have 50 different docker images, checking all the release cycle of all of those gets exhausting.

I believe I need to start generating notifications if a tag has not received an update for more than 30d.

The same pitch you hear from ads on instagram where they tell you the “secret” how to earn millions without doing anything. All you have to do is buy this eBook for $49

I hate providers not offering me a latest tag. Is there any valid reason not to do that?

Even worse, super stupid version tags such as MinIO is using: RELEASE.2025-09-07T16-13-09Z-cpuv1 (I wish I made that up)

Reality: social media will be made unavailable in all Australia.

“Hey Vscauce, Michael here. No, seriously. I am Michael. What do you mean you don’t believe me? I am the Michael of Vsauce and always have been. Anyways. I invented a new type of sauce with the goal of having the maximum calorie density chemically possible. (…)”

@talkingpumpkin@lemmy.world you have the genes of IE6

“Simpler way” as you need less machinery and less equipment for the same type of coffee, while giving an ecological benefit. So tossing away a one-use filter does not really fit into that category.

Besides that, how do you clean the rest of the coffee dripper? Can you put it in the dishwasher, as you can do it with the french press? Heck, even just rinsing the french press filter is good enough in 90% of the times.

Tl;dr counter point countered.