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I might be reading this wrong, but does it not say “yearly”? It may be repeating, but if that frequency is once a year, I’m willing to live with that.

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givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
The big deal to me is it’s being added to the base code, to go out on all instances.

People will see “Lemmy developers” and assume it’s related to their instance, and not realize it’s the “salary” for two admins on one of the most problematic instances around.

It feels like other people took the free code, did well with it, and now the creators suddenly believe in capitalism and want rewarded for their labor.

If the only instance using Lemmy was lemmy.ml, most of us wouldn’t be here, but they want to profit off of us because our instances used free code.

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- isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  This is very standard in the open-source world. No matter what you may think of the developers’ personal opinions, their work is valuable.
  
  Also, asking for donations is not “profiting off of us(sic)”, nor is it a salary, it’s just a text prompt hoping you’ll give the devs a kickback for their contribution. You can just ignore it and go about your day.
  
  They likely don’t make enough to live off of from those donations.
  
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  - givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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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    black0ut@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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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    isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    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. 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.
    
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