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No one is paid for this, but moderation is going to become a problem for Lemmy and the volunteers who are admins are going to need support.
yes, that's what i'm saying. We should acknowledge that we are fortunate to have dedicated volunteer devs and work on helping/supporting them.
We definitely should acknowledge the volunteer devs supporting the platform, but we need to address that there may be issues with the tools for mods as is and we need the paid devs to pull back from only coding and do more design of the architecture that can be filled in by volunteer devs.
There are paid devs?
There are donation pages that fund the two devs. They haven't complained about the funds yet.
Oh. Is there any indication of how much they may have actually received via these donation pages?
The vast majority of FOSS projects receive hardly anything in donations - even those with many users.
The term "paid dev" implies a salaried position. I would be astonished if the amount they've received is anything like a salary given the time requirements.
The do get a certain amount from a foundation each time they reach a certain milestone. Perhaps those milestones need to be adjusted.