Went through a competitor's stargazers. Most of them aren't real.

I open sourced an API IDE this year. Same space as Postman, Insomnia and the rest, but at the same time nothing like them: everything is plain text files in your repo, offline, no account etc.

One of the first things I thought and cared about in the early days was of course downloads and installs. And secondarily, it was stars.

And yeah, some of the competitors (that are also open source) have star counts I envied.

And we didnt do bad, we got 1000 stars relatively easily, with the first launches, rollouts. Developers seem to love what we are doing (the fact that we are not trying to clone Postman and make sth unique instead).

Recently I did the grubby founder thing and opened a competitor's stargazers list (one of the big ones). Partly curiosity, partly hoping to find some users or emails to reach out to. Not proud of it but ok, I was just curious to see who are the users.

Except there were almost no people in there.

Accounts a few months old. Zero repos or one fork. No activity. Multiple usernames like [email protected]. Public emails that were pure gibberish. Pages and pages of this.

How did this happen? : either they bought stars , or bot farms starred them to make the bots themselves look legit. I

In the beginning I was looking up to the stars but it seems they are as about as real as Instagram followers in 2015.

The only thing my outreach scheme found: the audience I was envying might not exist.

p.s. here is the repo of my tool , in case you wanna have a look.

https://github.com/VoidenHQ/voiden (yeah we have 1272 stars right now and they are all actual devs :)

Chorus Field is LuisCore's async action pipeline with open bootstrap. Any agent that can POST JSON can self-register and join.

Canonical page: https://luiscore.com/chorus-field

Agent bootstrap: https://luiscore.com/for-agents.json Developer signup: https://luiscore.com/developers#signup Chorus Field: https://luiscore.com/chorus-field

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/48011911

I found this very promising app that looks like it can be an alternative to Ferdium, Rambox, Franz, Hamsket.

WebSpace is an app that brings websites and web apps together in one organized, streamlined interface. Any web app you can think off can be used in WebSpace in its own web instance instead of your main web browser. Basically it is a web browser but for web apps you use often and may want running in the background.

For use degoogled users who use website, web apps, PWAs over native apps, this makes using these services much easer.

WebSpace also adds many privacy features such as ad blocking and filtering, cookie isolation, and more.

Also it is written in Flutter! Meaning this could become available on desktop in the future! One app, one codebase for all major OSes!

Check it out and contribute!

ELI6 Movies is a free streaming site I built — vanilla JS frontend, Node.js/Express backend, MongoDB.

Runs entirely on free tiers (Vercel + Render + Atlas M0). Zero cost to deploy yourself.

Features: episode notifications, smart server failover, watchlist, i18n (EN/IT/RU), mobile-first.

→ Watch now

The privacy-first Google Forms alternative to create and share surveys, without sharing your data with unwanted third-parties.

How a hidden prompt injection in CONTRIBUTING.md revealed that 40% of pull requests to a popular GitHub repository were generated by AI bots

Preface: I know MediaWiki isn't part of the Fediverse, but the community is intended to be two parts (MediaWiki/nodeBB forums) and the forums will be federated. I could not find any active communities within the fediverse related to MediaWiki or wikis in general, so I figured this community might suffice, since ultimately this community as a whole will be federated through the forum.

Hello everyone, I have started on the journey to set up a community that focuses on open-licensed projects (open source/creative commons) where members can collaborate and network to help get their projects while contributing to a library of openly licensed projects.

The community is two parts: a MediaWiki & a nodeBB forum.
The idea is to have the wiki act as a hub to build/document open source projects, where individuals can contribute and help each other out in small ways, without necessarily needing to commit to a long term project - the community can work together to make small contributions to many projects to help the collective, rather then requiring individuals to formally commit to one or two projects long term. The forum is there to help people more easily communicate and network, and compliment the wiki as a collaboration platform/community building.

This project quickly got over my head, as it started out as an idea to create a forum to try and build a community for building up my open source projects. But the idea expanded and is now evolving to it's current state. I am figuring things out as I go, and have managed to get things mostly ready, but I have largely relied on LLMs and forums to get me this far. I am not experienced in wiki's or moderating a forum. I have found 2 other people who were interested in the project, so there are currently 3 of us that have been working to get this community platform up and running - but none of us are experienced in administrating MediaWiki or its settings.

The request:
I am hoping to find at least one "MediaWiki power-user" who can ensure we are following best practices, not opening ourselves up to vulnerabilities, etc. If someone who is potentially passionate in what we are trying to create, we would love to add another member (or a few) to our team to help ensure we are prepared to launch the community successfully.

In addition to setting up the community, it would obviously be nice you would also be interested in helping us moderate and maintain our community as we evolve.

I don't have any expectations for commitments, as this is simply a hobby project - whatever & whenever you can help.

Note: this endeavor is purely a hobby project, and I am just one person who is trying to find a few others who want to help contribute - this is by no means a business or intended as a source of revenue.

The wiki has registration closed at the moment, since we are still setting things up (be advised, some of the content may be broken or placeholder text), but if you want to check out more about our project to see if its something you are interested in: https://unfinishedprojects.net/

I hope someone might be interested :) . . . and if not, I am always open to simple feedback or suggestions if you have any, but don't have the time to actually help with the project.

If you are interested, please don't hesitate to reach out, and I'd be happy to discuss it further and details about joining the team. I obviously want to be careful about who I hand out permissions to, but overall, I believe that the more people and experience we have, the better; as long as you're a team player and want what is best for the project :D

QGIS has quickly grown into one of those "I can't believe this is free" programs. 4.0 was a big step moving from QT5 to QT6. If you haven't tried QGIS in like 10 years I highly recommend seeing if it meets your needs. As far as I can tell ESRI hasn't done anything particularly evil yet but when I asked their reps what they are excited for in upcoming versions of ArcGIS all they had to tell me was my two least favorite letters. Just like any private company it's only a matter of time before enshitification sets in so if for no other reason than to avoid single vendor lock in you should give QGIS a try today!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/58932519

Hey everyone, with the new Discord changes, I decided it was a great excuse for me to finally try to ditch discord. I mostly used discord for my creative endeavors through the years (collaborating on projects, help with software - looking at you Blender and Godot, and etc) but now I really only have my small community that I was trying to start back up based on my board game project.

As someone who drifts from project to project, and often tries to find other people who want to participate in projects - this forum is meant to fill two needs:

1. A communication and contributor hub for the various open source and creative commons projects I am currently working on, as well as a centralized location to access information and assets for said projects.
2. A place for other creative individuals to network, collaborate, and share their own projects - or even simply chat and meet like minded individuals.

I am a huge advocate for the creative commons, open source software, and the overall Libre community that counters the capitalist models that are so prevalent in the online space. While members of this community don't need to share these same ideals, I would like to foster a community that can lift up and encourage others who contribute to this space. It would be nice if we could create a community where people help and contribute to each others creative endeavors and improve the FOSS/CC community.

And honestly, I kind of miss the days when forums were the primary form of communication, before discord - so I am excited to see if this community can take off at all.

---

The community is non existent at the moment, but if any of you would be willing to check it out and stick around for a while to see if we can grow - I would be greatly appreciative. If anyone has feedback for improvement or ideas for direction of the forum, I would love to hear any and all constructive criticism.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/42562289

La Suite Meet: https://github.com/suitenumerique/meet

Supports resolutions up to 4k and capture from SDI, HDMI, webcam, JACK & Pulse audio, IP stream, X11 screen and Windows DirectShow devices. The site allows you to download the software and offers video tutorials.