I think y'all are expecting too much from 2-3 poorly funded developers who are being overwhelmed by hundreds of thousands of people who grew used to have a "free" product developed by a giant corporation who employs thousands of people and has revenue in the hundreds of millions.

I also think that this constant chasing for the next Messiah is counterproductive. I wish the best of luck for the Sublinks developers, but I also wish they could find a way to work to grow the ecosystem as a whole instead of competing for such a small slice of the Internet.

To put it all together: If the largest issue with Lemmy is tooling for moderation and proper instance management, I'd be more than willing to refocus my work on Fediverser into it. But I have to say that I can not put any more effort into it without getting proper compensation for anything. As much as I'm hopeful to see the Fediverse grow and for the downfall of Big Tech, I know that we will need more (a lot more) than just a handful of people working on this as side-job while thousands of other just keep watching and repeating "Are we there yet? Are we there yet?"

[–] Blaze@reddthat.com 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (7 children)

I also think that this constant chasing for the next Messiah is counterproductive.

MariaDB is a successful MySQL fork. LibreOffice is a successful OpenOffice fork. Even within the Fediverse, Mbin emerged as an actively developed fork from Kbin.

I wish the best of luck for the Sublinks developers, but I also wish they could find a way to work to grow the ecosystem as a whole instead of competing for such a small slice of the Internet.

The choice of Rust limited the ability for people to contribute. If I had gotten a dollar every time I read "I would like to contribute to Lemmy, but I don't have time to learn Rust", I would get a beer to everyone in this thread.

we will need more (a lot more) than just a handful of people working on this

Definitely. Sublinks with Java, Mbin with PHP and Piefed with Python already make it easier for people to contribute to the whole ecosystem.

Fediverser

As a side-note, how is it going on that side? It's been a while since the last time I checked.

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

The choice of Rust limited the ability for people to contribute. If I had gotten a dollar every time I read “I would like to contribute to Lemmy, but I don’t have time to learn Rust”, I would get a beer to everyone in this thread.

Rust is really not as hard to learn as some people claim. If they dont have time for this, how will they have time to contribute to Lemmy? Besides lemmy-ui is written in Typescript and could also use a lot more contributions.

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