The developers behind Lemmy have spoken up about the current situation regarding migrating users and the effect on their development process.
Two most important points from this imo:
- don’t hammer them with pull requests, duplicate Git issues or questions because they got enough of those
- if you want things to move faster, give them money! They are focusing on user feedback and therefore don’t have enough time to make a lot of money.
Edit: Here’s a Patreon link to the Devs: https://www.patreon.com/dessalines
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When our open source grant from NLNet runs out at the end of this year, we will have to switch to full community funding, probably via yearly funding drives. Currently we only have two full-time devs, @nutomic@lemmy.ml and I, but could potentially add more to our little worker coop as we grow.
If you’d like to help us out, here’s our donation page: https://join-lemmy.org/donate
Liberapay is much preferred, but the other ones work too. I’m sincerely grateful to everyone who has or is contributed, it really does make us feel like we’re working on something worthwhile.
Liberapay is simpler, automatically splits payment between devs, and has no fees (other than the payment processor). They’re even funded by their own model.
Opencollective isn’t as good because you have to submit invoices to get paid.
Patreon is absolutely the worst because it’s not made for teams, and they take a big cut for essentially just running a wordpress for you with payment buttons.
i came from reddit , i found it hard to justify staying on there when the admins have becomes so heavy handed and anti free speech
Isn’t that an admin or mod issue instead of a developer issue?
The developers for Lemmy shouldn’t have the power you’re talking about.
