Lemmy Apps

I still disagree with how this was executed:

• Voting on a post is not a fair way to conduct a poll because (1) each instance shows a different amount of votes due to federation delays/issues, (2) some instances disable downvotes, and (3) downvoting decreases the visibility of posts in the main feed
• The poll only ran for 20 hours and you didn’t state when it was going to close beforehand

I’m putting further pressure on this because:

• The community seems to be divided pretty evenly on this proposal
• This community is named lemmyapps, not fosslemmyapps
• Some of us have privacy-respecting, non-tracking, no-ads apps that do not follow the FOSS model for good reasons
• Your accounts are all less than 10 days old. Nothing necessarily wrong with that, but an introduction from our new moderator would have established a bit more credibility before making quick changes like this.

Here are some alternative solutions we could discuss:

• Leave this community as-is and create a new community for free, open-source apps
• Prioritize free, open-source apps in this community with megathreads or title requirements
• If you’re still wanting to restrict this community to FOSS, do another poll that more accurately and fairly counts votes (using something like StrawPoll potentially).

Regardless, please take the time needed to do this fairly and consider both sides. Changing the topic of a 5k-member community based on a 50/50 or even 60/40 vote should not be taken lightly.