• gabe [he/him]@literature.cafe
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    9 months ago

    Welcome to the hell of being a lemmy admin. There’s a reason why lemmy admins are fed up with the developers.

    • gabe [he/him]@literature.cafe
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      9 months ago

      For context, there’s a lot that goes on behind the scenes when it comes to lemmy admin stuff especially in the matrix channels. There is a significant frustration and lack of confidence in the lemmy developers at this point. Even those who try to contribute to the project get eventually feeling pushed out.

      • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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        9 months ago

        Based on what I’ve seen on the public facing part of the developer side, I get the feeling this isn’t the kind of group that can build the kind of organization required to make this sustainable in the long run.

        I’m just waiting for when Beehaw releases that they’ve given up on Lemmy and have created a new tech stack.

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          9 months ago

          It’s open source. We don’t have to depend on the original developers.

          If it gets too bad, someone can just make a fork.

          Afaik people are just impatient with the developers and have different short term goals.

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            9 months ago

            I mention a new tech stack because Beehaw brought it up as an option and a lot of people have commented on the difficulty of development in this environment.

              • Rob T Firefly@lemmy.world
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                9 months ago

                Rust seems like a great foundation.

                The fact that I know you’re referring to the programming language called “Rust” doesn’t make this sentence any less funny.

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        9 months ago

        That sucks. As a 3rd party Lemmy app developer, I’ve only had positive interactions with the Lemmy devs. They’re even being proactive in communications.

      • ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml
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        9 months ago

        That’s kind of the impression I got but thought maybe I was just mistaken because I haven’t actually been hands-on with this project. That’s unfortunate to hear.

      • cum@lemmy.cafe
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        9 months ago

        What about kbin, isn’t that entirely different software that can be developed to phase out Lemmy?

        • MBM@lemmings.world
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          9 months ago

          From what I heard Kbin’s developer is very inactive, so people started a fork called Mbin. Mbin might be alright?

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        9 months ago

        Perhaps there’s starting to be a Lemmy clone/alternative? I think it’s named Sublinks