this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2023
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I understand completely. I've received a total of 400$ or so from open source bounties and other rewards, and would love to see a similar model in many more projects, including lemmy... and yet, please bear in mind that lemmy's monthly income is currently only around 500 dollars (and that's increased in the past couple months), excluding nlnet funding. The top two contributors have each added around 40 times more lines then the third to the project. Totaling all 140 independent contributors, they still fall more than 5x short of either of the main developers. My takeaway is that this site needs more funding.
this is not how most open source project works.