Beehaw Support

2796 readers

1 users here now

Support and meta community for Beehaw. Ask your questions about the community, technical issues, and other such things here.

A brief FAQ for lurkers and new users can be found here.

Our September 2024 financial update is here.

For a refresher on our philosophy, see also What is Beehaw?, The spirit of the rules, and Beehaw is a Community

This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

134

Beehaw, Lemmy, and A Vision of the Fediverse - Ruminations on the past and visions of the future (docs.beehaw.org)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

79 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

That would be great to hear from the devs in response to why can't you work on feature? If the reason is because someone else is setting the software priorities so the devs can get PAID; okay got it. Instead we get the contradictory answers of:

But are my priorities not my own?

No we arent getting paid, there is no employment contract with anyone .

So which is it?? The Lemmy devs priorities are their own and their priorities don't line up with most of the community; or their priorities are beholden to what NLNet says so they ~~don't~~ get paid??

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

So which is it?? The Lemmy devs priorities are their own and their priorities don't line up with most of the community; or their priorities are beholden to what NLNet says so they don't get paid??

Both.

NLnet works like:

You come up with a project, with whatever priorities you want, and split it into some tasks.
If NLnet deems it worthy, they'll pay you for each task they consider you completed successfully.

Until community donations, or commercial services (which are compatible with NLnet), exceed what they're getting paid by NLnet, they're beholden to prioritize tasks that NLnet has agreed to pay for.

If those tasks "don't line up with most of the community"... well, tough luck. The community is free to contribute or donate more.

Yes, adding or changing tasks is possible, but it still requires NLnet approval to get paid.

PS: in those threads there is mention of not addressing lolicon "pornography" as a priority... keep in mind NLnet projects are EU funded with an EU perspective, and multiple countries in the EU consider lolicon "fictional non-realistic" drawings as "not pornography". For the realistic ones, maybe @[email protected] could weigh in on the blocking statistics.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Thanks, I was not familiar with those nuances of NLNet funding or process.