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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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨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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- black0ut@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨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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  - givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨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 lemme.ml has to exist, because the new releases are so filled with bugs they need to wait for volunteers to fix them all?
    
    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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    You just proved my point. I said none of that.
    
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- isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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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