Lemmy Apps

The poll was improperly conducted and way too short for users to adequately find in time. This announcement is the first I'm hearing about this discussion or poll at all.

I think this might be jumping the gun. Also, it's poor form, imo, to change the focus of a community after it's been established. It would make more sense to create /c/lemmyfossapps or something similar. Taking a broadly-focused community and narrowing it down after people have already joined feels wrong.

Those are my two cents, since I never got a chance to respond to the poll, which allegedly already had a pretty narrow margin.

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.

The poll was definitely too short, I didn't even get a chance to see it despite being subbed.

That’s too bad, some of us simply want to retain ownership of what we create or are looking for a more sustainable model. I definitely see and respect the good intentions here though.

Also, in the interest of transparency, would you mind un-deleting the poll post and discussion post so others can see the discussions if they wish?

this decision was made as a community by conducting a poll

Would it be possible for you to link to said poll? I'm curious what the final votes were.

@THE_MASTERMIND@lemmy.sdf.org, could you please revert the community to what it was when you took over (allowing non FOSS?)