https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5613

There’s two “full time” Lemmy developers, and one of them just added a repeating dialog box that will pop up regardless of instance asking for money to be sent to his and another lemmy.ml admin’s personal accounts as a salary.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldOPM
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    6 days ago

    They likely don’t make enough to live off of from those donations.

    If it took them 4 years to make a reddit clone and it still takes two people full time to where they can’t work…

    Then they’re not doing much, certainty nothing that’s irreplaceable

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      6 days ago

      Tell me you don’t know what you’re talking about without telling me you don’t know what you’re talking about.

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        6 days ago

        So you think there isn’t a reason the big instances are always a couple versions behind?

        You think they’re all lying when they say when those two release a new version it’s so full of bugs that it would break Lemmy?

        You don’t believe those two developers that lemmy.ml has to exist as a “test version”, because the new releases are so filled with bugs they need to wait for volunteers to fix them all? (After the users identify them for the developers)

        In your mind, everyone is lying about that and these two Lemmy.ml admins are actually the ones doing all the work?

        That’s crazy man, that’s like saying Elmo Musk is personally building rockets.

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      black0ut@pawb.social is right, you have no idea what you’re talking about.

      Open-source software development can be very slow sometimes. It’s not about speed, it’s about expertise. Like I said previously, they likely hold a day job besides developing Lemmy.

      I’ve been in the open-source scene for about a decade, it takes a LOT of developers or a corporate sponsor to do any work long-time. Products live and die because volunteers run out of time and / or interest.

      Again, I invite you to fork Lemmy yourself and maintain it faster than the original devs could. Put your money where your mouth is.