First post, honest question.
Who will pay for lemmy? There were a few sites that started sometime back because they were fed up with something about reddit but eventually they all crashed because they had no funds. How will lemmy be different?
First post, honest question.
Who will pay for lemmy? There were a few sites that started sometime back because they were fed up with something about reddit but eventually they all crashed because they had no funds. How will lemmy be different?
What company is paying them to develop Lemmy?
No company, it’s just them. To the extent they’re paid, it’s donations.
What gives you the impression there is one?
It says the developers are self funded but they are working all day on Lemmy it seems. So they are unemployed and working on Lemmy?
They are funded by a foundation, NLnet. AFAIK they set certain development goals together and the devs are paid when those are reached.
That’s how a lot of open source works tbh, often devs have jobs to make money and work on their project in free time then if the project gains traction they start making enough off donations or whatever to drop their other work.