• BolexForSoup@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I really can’t be too hard on the devs, this is a completely volunteer operation, and the massive influx led to all kinds of very foundational issues related to scaling. As I said in another comment a day or two ago, I think many are focused on just keeping the wheels from falling off the car that is their own instances right now.

    Realistically, I think the only way they can right the course is for several instances to go on hiatus that are run by people who can contribute 10 to 20 hours a week developing the platform. I am also making a number of assumptions, such as there is a big overlap between developers and people running instances.

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      1 year ago

      I don’t think there is a big overlap. The main devs are hosting lemmy.ml and lemmygrad as far as I know. All the other ones are hosted by other people.

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          Yes it’s a resources problem, I think so. If enough people donate then they might be able to pay a full time employee to work on it full time.