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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Life is even more tough for Lemmy devs, putting out fire left and right in the past few weeks. My concern is are they still able to earn a living when the majority of their time is spent fixing bugs in Lemmy?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I believe they work on Lemmy full time, and earn money from a grant - which I think is tied to them implementing certain features if I'm remembering things correctly.

That being said, I do hope that all of this isn't killing their interest in Lemmy...

[–] MBM 24 points 1 year ago

Key point: they get money for implementing features, not fixing bugs, so I think for now they're surviving off donations