Hi everyone, welcome, ect... It might go without saying but lemmy is open source! The platform is written in rust and typescript (which is a big pro for me). I'm sure we all have our little gripes with the platform, and those are fixed with collective teamwork :)

These are "good first issues", here is a contributing guide), and here is a chat where developers coordinate.

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[–] Cloak@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If the developers do not distribute donations among all contributors

I understand completely. I've received a total of 400$ or so from open source bounties and other rewards, and would love to see a similar model in many more projects, including lemmy... and yet, please bear in mind that lemmy's monthly income is currently only around 700 dollars (and that's increased in the past couple months), excluding nlnet funding. The top two contributors have each added around 40 times more lines then the third to the project. Totaling all 140 independent contributors, they still fall more than 5x short of either of the main developers. My takeaway is that this site needs more funding.

See also https://lemmy.ml/post/1175822, and ccing @nutomic@lemmy.ml