AI alignment to human values is surprisingly hard task. And extraordinary important one, as unaligned AI is extinction level risk (not only by the Skynet scenario, but even much subtle ones).

Well, doing a software maintenance is not a small task. And it is important for a software of scale of Lemmy.

In the same time, if the developers insist of using the donations for the “testing” instance that is known for political censorship and that would probably be vastly defederated if it wasn’t the “official” one, it becomes questionable who should donate…

I am OK about people funding a software to promote their goals (unless it’s a misuse of monopoly or something similar). I just don’t belong to the target group. The developers clearly need the resources main. Maybe a solution could be that only people politically aligned with the maintenars donate to them and use Lemmy, and we others could migrate to PieFed and donate for its maintenance and development.

Yeah! But especially the Board, which is the ultimate corporate authority of WMF.

I am a longtime Wikimedia volunteer, activist, organizer and founder and leader of independent Wikimedia organizations. As of that, I am (mostly was) in quite a close contact with highly positioned people from the Wikimedia Foundation, including the Trusties liasoning for the Affiliations Committee (that deals with independent Wikimedia organizations).

I see it first hand that Wikimedia Foundation has some structural problems. They have problems to ensure that they themselves follow their own rules… The Board of Trusties, or at least the Chair knows that for years. Yet, they consistently fail to correct it. Wikimedia Foundation took full responsibility for (at least) one its independent organisation but (to my best knowledge) totally failed to do any corrective action for its misbehavior for 6 years and counting. Some of those corrective actions could be done in 1 day by an individual or in 30-60 days by a committee (which are notoriously slow).

So, yeah. Wikimedia Foundation has its problems and the problems are putting very unnecessary restrains that conteract Wikimedia mission itself. WMF is a great organization with briliant mission and, IMO, it is worth saving. For fixing WMF are needed such reports (to the extend they are true) and corrective actions by the Board of Trusties of Wikimedia Foundation.

Economies of scale? 🤔

Using Wero would save some fees that would otherwise go to USA. But using intermediary in USA defy that, as some fees from Europe would still go to USA.

Nice. Although, if LiberaPay would accept Wero using Stripe, it would quite defy the purpose…

Aging.

F-droid comes to rescue 😎

The app is not Free / Open Source 😕

It’s quite nice for the things which it has in its database. But I found adding new things in the database bit annoying because of the requirements of info that I usually don’t know and and am too lazy to search for. Also, to big extent not usable for me because it works only online but I usually don’t have internet access at shops.

Time for united European army. With better coordination, Europe can have stronger army even with the same funding.

This is a self-awareness at its peak!

Sure nothing wrong can result from that. /s

While I support bigger funding for ESA, IMO much bigger priority should be on curing aging (currently kills cca 80% of people) and creating peace. As much as I want colonies will inside and far beyond the Solar system, those other thighs are just more important even in short term.

Speaking Esperanto.

Ability to silent faster than others speak.

According to Ken Wilber, Bill Clinton said that the problem of Middle East is that less than 2% of world population is integral (on the integral level of consciousness). So it would be nice if more people would understand than and agree.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_theory#Levels_or_stages

A classical sign of an early worldcentric worldview that is more about competition than about collaboration. A level “orange” in Integral theory. But humankind is continuing its development to late worldcentric worldview “green” level and more. And Fediverse is helping with that!

So, a new Copenhagen interpretation? 🤔