I appreciate your candid feedback. Kuky is actually built on evidence-based peer support principles. Key research supporting our approach:
• Shalaby & Agyapong (2020), JMIR Mental Health – Peer support improves wellbeing and reduces stigma.
https://mental.jmir.org/2020/6/e15572
• Cooper et al. (2024), BMC Medicine – Peer-led interventions boost empowerment, hope, and connection.
https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s1291...
Thanks for the feedback, we thought about dating but it’s a saturated market & not really our passion. We care more about mental health if people meet & date because of Kuky, we’re okay with that as a byproduct
I can say for myself that seeing the wars have had a detrimental impact on my life & faith in humanity. Hearing people try to justify a genocide makes me completely checkout. The algorithms also don't help when you keep seeing kids & families decimated constantly on your reddit, instagram & x feed with genocide drones. I'm convinced that we are living in one of the most regrettable times in our century.
I can't tell you how many developers feel this way, there is no reason for this to be the norm. Be sure to seek professional help but if you'd like someone to talk to someone who can relate feel free to book a time https://calendly.com/thanks_dev/30min
It says he used the money from redundancy to continue with his work. Pfizer would have a hard time winning that case because the discovery was made past their employment. Having field knowledge doesn't make it a crime. Coding is different because it's easier to copy paste functions & classes, it also doesn't help that everything has timestamps. Your best bet is to rewrite everything.
Microsoft recently announced they have generated 2Billion in ARR from Github Copilot. As part of corporate social responsibility, do you think Microsoft should give back to the open source community given that Copilot is technically trained by OSS maintainers??
It's great that this is getting coverage but I'd love to see more solid tangible actions. I think simple & solid commitment frameworks like https://osspledge.com/ will do more in terms of helping to recognise & reward the eco-system.
I got a DM from a maintainer asking to elaborate so here's my personal opinion "The Geomys model feels a lot like the Tidelift model but it doesn't really create an eco-system that's more inclusive & exciting to be a part of. We want to create a community where more maintainers are excited by contributing to open source instead of them saying ohh this is too hard lets pass it onto someone else with the resource. The other issue is that how do you determine if something is critical & if something isn't, it's really subjective."
I personally like Sentry's approach more, their program focused on supporting the breadth and depth of their dependency tree rather than just the critical components https://blog.sentry.io/we-just-gave-500-000-dollars-to-open-... Disclaimer: I work for thanks.dev
One of the biggest risks for companies is securing dormant code, it's perfectly fine for a project to be no longer sexy enough to maintain. Platforms like thanks.dev have already proven how reward & recognition can help promote development in an ecosystem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5FV-AnKPlo&t=1s
I've been working on thanks.dev for over two years now & reading this report is disappointing to say the least. Why not spend the time to explain the value XZ Utils created for all the commercial users & what companies can do to better supporting maintainers with hundreds of issues experiencing burnout from their unpaid work? OpenSSF should instead promote FOSS programs like https://frontendmasters.com/blog/how-were-supporting-open-so... & how they help their open source community stay active. Working in open source is a social contract & corporates need to be better citizens if they want to reduce their risk profile.