Maybe fix some structural issues? Apparently Beehaw is looking to shut down and or completely defederate. There are complaints that serious issues are being ignored by devs.
If fixes were on a roadmap, I think that would help.
I don’t know much of anything about the backend, but if a whole community is considering leaving, it may be time to reassess priorities and goals.
For the past three years dessalines and I have been funded to work on Lemmy full-time by generous support from the NLnet foundation. These donations are paid out when we implement certain new features. But now we are busy answering questions, reviewing pull requests and urgently fixing problems. That means we are unable to work on the milestones agreed with NLnet, and won’t receive payments from them. We are increasingly reliant on user donations to pay our bills. These donations currently add up to 1500 Euros per month, which is not even enough to pay minimum wage for the two of us. Hopefully more users can consider donating, so that we can put our full attention to making Lemmy better for everyone, and possibly add more developers to our worker co-op in the future.
Agreed. Based on the little I know, the issues sound like they’re structure/design related.
Edit: didn’t check context and as a result was repetitive.
Based on what Beehaw admins said, I really wonder if the issues they mentioned will be addressed and their recounting of their experiences with devs make me wonder what the devs’ priorities are and why they chose them.
It’s situations like this that kept my employer from ever embracing FOSS solutions. If you can’t staff to fork and support it, you are at the mercy of another’s whim.
As with all things, there is surely another side and also the truth, so I’m interested in seeing where this goes, how it turns out.
Maybe fix some structural issues? Apparently Beehaw is looking to shut down and or completely defederate. There are complaints that serious issues are being ignored by devs.
If fixes were on a roadmap, I think that would help.
I don’t know much of anything about the backend, but if a whole community is considering leaving, it may be time to reassess priorities and goals.
I don’t think the devs are intentionally ignoring shit, they just have a lot to do
Their funding is based on milestones / features that they set and agreed to with the NLnet Foundation.
https://join-lemmy.org/news/2023-06-17_-_Update_from_Lemmy_after_the_Reddit_blackout
They already de-federated 447 instances, I doubt that will make much difference.
Agreed. Based on the little I know, the issues sound like they’re structure/design related.
Edit: didn’t check context and as a result was repetitive.
Based on what Beehaw admins said, I really wonder if the issues they mentioned will be addressed and their recounting of their experiences with devs make me wonder what the devs’ priorities are and why they chose them.
It’s situations like this that kept my employer from ever embracing FOSS solutions. If you can’t staff to fork and support it, you are at the mercy of another’s whim.
As with all things, there is surely another side and also the truth, so I’m interested in seeing where this goes, how it turns out.