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Update from Lemmy after the Reddit blackout (join-lemmy.org)
submitted 3 years ago by [M] to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
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[–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Yeah, very difficult situation, I truly hope they'll find the help they need.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Well, I'm lending a hand. I have some patches in production already, and I've only been contributing for a week or so.

    If you have the means, please help out. There are tons of bugs, important features, etc, and it's a pretty stable base, so it's a good time to jump in.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    @sugar_in_your_tea About "good time to jump in": the small size of the lemmy dev community gives you a chance to shift off Microsoft to a community git forge e.g. #Codeberg [1] that aims at forge federation [2] *before* there's too much #TyrannyOfConvenience inertia. Mastodon devs are reluctant to even *discuss* giving up Microsoft [3].

    @ulu_mulu @lemmy #GiveUpGitHub #forgefed #forgejo https://giveupgithub.org

    [1] https://codeberg.org
    [2] https://forgefed.org
    [3] https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/22572

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Well, I don't get to make that decision. If the maintainers choose to do that, I'll follow, but there's a good chance that a lot of the other contributors won't. For something in rapid development with a lot of community contributions, you want that barrier of entry to be as low as possible.

    So if it was up to me (and it's not), I would say no. I would be open to an official mirror somewhere else, and perhaps moving to a separate feature/bug tracking system (esp. if it's easier for the community to report bugs), which imo is the biggest barrier to moving the repo.

    I guess I'm not particularly worried about it since the project is FOSS and the difficulty in switching is pretty low.

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