I suggest a long nail. Make sure to hammer it in nice and deep so the breaker holds.

After many careers and much money earned and spent, I now try to go by „ikigai“. Its a japanese theory and teaches you to be aware of what it is that you want, what makes you money, what the world needs and what you‘re good at, basically. This is how I went from a very well paid but soul sucking job to a lesser paid but much more fulfilling work.

For me it was building computers and the stuff around it. Its fun and it makes decent money if done right.

Good luck!

Actually, this has been discussed on lemmy and we tried to set something up but it didnt pan out afaik. Feel free to push for it or link it if you find something that would work.

One that splits my money over open source projects per my usage (I tell them). Currently it is too hard to find all donation links of all projects one uses and then keep an eye on them, update payment info and amount. Also if many people donate small amounts it would lessen the overhead compared to one person donating small amounts.

I understood that. Sorry if that wasnt clear.

What I‘m saying is please (who can) consider asking and paying people for implementing this stuff.

For example: voice chat in discord (or any) bridges isnt implemented because it is a lot of work but it is doable.

Consider making a gofundme for paying someone to do it if you cant afford it yourself.

One reason why open source is far behind prorietary stuff (foss can be commercial, see nextcloud) is because people keep thinking anything in life is actually free.

There is no such thing as free lunch. If you‘re getting free software it is because someone donated their time to make it.

In case of discord: make an issue on the mautrix bridges for example and add a financial incentive if you can so people can afford to make this for you. Good luck :)

No problem.

I can see how one would struggle to use these bridges. They‘re not polished yet. Have you donated to the maker yet? Because people keep comparing stuff that people make for free in their free time to multi million dollar priducts.

We should all either put in work or money before we allow ourselves to judge these apps. I personally spend 1% of my income additionally to helping the development.

Fair enough but writing a readme isn‘t, right?

Two things: the experience wont be the exact same because matrix is not a discord clone. It will be a mix of whatsapp, discord, fb messenger and imessage because its a drop in replacement for all of those.

Your friends dont need to switch. You can bridge all these services to matrix and have it all in one app. Thats the fun.