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I am a dev. The example I gave was meant to be a POV, but in hindsight this was not clear. Because of this, I cannot meaningfully answer your question.
This topic still deserves genuine and transparent research. I have no doubt there are people already working on this, but I have not seen any notable results.
[OFF-TOPIC] To be completely frank with you, I've think that our communities (federation and open-source) are too splintered. Not in the sense of head count (this is good) but in terms of duplicating and abandoning work (this is bad). We really need a way to get a community-pulse on what is generally needed/wanted. I am not sure what the solution for this is, but I know there is one.
Agreed. I'll try asking our UX people and see what they'd expect/want.
I think that's a feature, not a bug, at least in the abstract sense.
For example, I think federation is a terrible solution to the general problem we're trying to solve here. It requires too much hosting costs for everyone to self-host, requires too much trust in the admin to properly horizontally scale, and is inherently complex, which scares people away (and some of that complexity seeps through to the user).
However, a lot of people think it's the bees knees, hence why we have Mastodon and Lemmy. I still think it's poorly designed for scale, so my projects aren't federated, but I certainly appreciate the people working on it in the meantime (I see it as a stopgap), and I do contribute fixes here and there (I was somewhat active in fixing bugs when I came to Lemmy).
This is tricky because there is no one community. It's better managed as separate communities instead of one large FOSS community.
So maybe projects just need a better way to gather feedback from users other than issue trackers. Projects really should do more polls.