You’re being dense, the reason is devs get burned out and you’re asking them to do work for free.
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deadsuperhero@lemmy.world 6 months agoIt’s honestly mind-blowing. At every turn, for no reason at all, they act like a bunch of dicks. It’s like they decided to run a community project based on engineering prowess alone, and nothing else.
Except the engineering isn’t all that good, either.
sacbuntchris@lemmy.world 6 months ago
deadsuperhero@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The reason that an open source developer might experience burnout are myriad, but can include:
- Lack of compensation
- Insufficient tooling or project infrastructure
- A high ratio of operators to maintainers
- Lack of a concrete roadmap, quality documentation, tests,
- Lack of an onboarding process for new contributors
- Inability to reconcile differences with contributors, leading to hard forks or exodus of contributors
- Intractable architectural issues that require substantial engineering effort, possibly more than the maintainer can actually contribute
- Lack of direction
As someone who has done Community Management for an open source, decentralized communication platform (Diaspora), I am familiar with all of these things. This shit is hard, and I am not denying that Lemmy devs have done a lot of good work.
The problem is actually much simpler than you’re making it out to be. For a social platform, which depends on interconnected self-hosted communities to succeed, you absolutely have to build in the tools and utilities necessary to deal with all the crazy shit that comes with the territory. Ignoring this causes a cascade of problems that gradually get worse the longer they remain unaddressed.
The devs are surviving on crowdfunding and grants, and doing the best they can with that. That’s commendable! They probably need more of both to have their needs fully covered. But don’t get it twisted: receiving proceeds for your work is not the same thing as working for free.
TxzK@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Not only that, but the developer apparently Dessalines, denying the Tiananmen Square Massacre and praises the Uyghur Genocide. Absolutely disgusting
Arelin@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Well yeah? The only countries accusing China of mishandling the ETIM (an issue created by the US through Afganistan btw) in Xinjiang are the ones committing an actual genocide in Palestine, i.e imperial core countries. The Organization of Islamic Cooperation and Muslim countries in general are against the western propaganda about it.
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TxzK@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Yeah, because the West is also committing a genocide, that means your genocide is ok. Both are doing genocides. Torturing and raping hundreds if thousands of Uyghurs, forcing them to abandon their culture, forced birth control, forced labour, forced sterilisation and prosecution without any legal process isn’t just combating ETIM terrorists. That’s same level of BS argument Israel is using while flattening entire Gaza and saying they’re only combating Hamas terrorists.
Because they’re corrupt shitheads? They don’t give shit about human rights either, they see more profit from supporting China same way the west sees more profit supporting Israel.
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And you can’t say Amnesty International is Western propaganda because they’re very critical of Israel and it’s genocide as well.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 months ago
TIL two wrongs equals a right!
Badeendje@lemmy.world 6 months ago
And on .ml you get banned for saying otherwise. Check their modlog.
deadsuperhero@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yeah, one of the project devs threatened to ban me after I told him to get past his own ego.
Badeendje@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Par for the course. I hope for them they don’t break the ethics clauses of their financing.