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Now I am confused, are you able to make changes to the Lemmy codebase? A fork? If you want to find a way to fund development, why not just work with the current team?
That's not what I'm doing yet, although it is definitely something that I would need to do ahead.
The platform that I'm developing has a much larger scope compared to Lemmy. It's not just a "Fediverse's Reddit", but something entirely different. It has community chat functionalities similar to those of discord for example. Communities would also be able to organize in person events and so on.
I'm achieving most of the above functionalities without altering the lemmy backend source code. I'm doing this by kinda creatively using the Lemmy Client that I'm developing.
Lemmy's entire goal is very different from my goal for the coop. My 0 competency in Rust also makes me useless for Lemmy devs.
I'm essentially just taking Lemmy's source code, n jerry rigging it to get the functionality that I want while ensuring that my platform won't affect Lemmy users in a bad way during federation.
Of course, I would have to do some backend work to get certain functionality, but I can do that without touching Lemmy's backend code. Not touching Lemmy's code would be good for maintenance n overall development at least for now, when the only resource is me haha.
I have an MVP coming up by this Sunday, so I would start posting about it from a new account. I find the client to be quite unique n beautiful looking, n m quite excited to present it to the world now haha.