can we say that it is insanely cheap?
for an online platform competing with the big social media companies a total of less than 500 per month is nothing.
want to know the cost per active user per month and compare when Reddit and Facebook overhead.
That's specifically development funding. The hosting cost/funding is separate on an instance by instance basis, most likely the majority of funding comes from whoever owns/operates the instance.
you're forgetting about hosting, administration, and moderation! Don't forget to donate to your instance folks
Wow that makes the pace of new feature development all the more striking.
It's pretty normal for new software to have a fast pace of new feature development, and for software that has established itself somewhat to have slower pace. Especially as fast pace means accumulating tech debt that you have to work on later
I think it all comes down to using python instead of Rust right?
While some will claim that, I personally believe it's just as simple as the dev(s) doing good work. Code practices and readability goes a long way.
Both languages have relative popularity, but both are easy to debug, easy to work with. Both are good at what they do. Rust has an edge with raw speed and python with its community packages.
Looking at both codebases, I can tell you Piefed is immensely easier to parse and potentially make changes to. Lemmy is very hard to get into. At least for me. Don't get me wrong, both are awesome, but Lemmy is significantly harder to figure out what is going on.
Source: 18+ year software dev here.
not quite. While it's true that rust has a reputation for taking longer to write and release in, green field development is a lot easier to work in than stuff that already has a lot of moving parts and places that you need to consider the affects of changing one thing to somewhere else.
That is definitely a strong factor.
Yeah it's amazing
Can I make a one-time donation?
One-time donations aren't properly supported yet, but you can discontinue your donation immediately after initiating the first payment.You can do one-time donations via Liberapay. Just select the option to be reminded to renew instead of automatically renewing. You'll get an email that reminds you to renew when the time is up, but you can just ignore it.
Kofi accepts one time donations.
Yeah that's something I've been needing to do for a while.
The Lemmy money is spread across 3 devs or so? And they have been writing it since 2018 or something. It's not surprising that they have more momentum and name recognition.
PieFed is new and on Codeberg. Especially the Codeberg thing, I like. It does lack a CI though. How stable is it?
It breaks all the time but usually only for a tiny bit of time.
It has a docker setup, so in theory a good ci could start with just making sure that runs. Then we get the nicities like testing, e2e, deployment, ect ..
Codeberg has been stable enough for my small usage. It does have a CI, woodpecker, that requires manual approval. I haven't used their CI yet
I meant that https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi doesn't have a CI setup.
No money for tankie devs!
Look man I rlly don't like the tankies but I still think its okay for a couple hardworking devs to get by. They're not getting rich from this.
People keep acting like these people need to be boycotted as if they were Jeff Bezos or something. It's just some devs working on this shit out of the good in their heart.
Rimu really needs to hustle these days.
Yet the .ml stans say Desselines lives in abject poverty and "does this out of the goodness of his own heart". Suuuure.
where do you live that 4k between multiple people is considered wealthy
That's split between him and Nutomic though. USD $4250 is €3,665.80 (as of writing this comment), divided between them is €1,832.90. That's not a lot.
I mean, it's equivalent to the minimum salary i guess. I think they're european, and in france the minimum salary is around 1800€ before taxes. That's not a lot in the absolute, but in the foss world, it is quite comfortable.
If you split that between 2/3 devs it's not a lot. It's a decent part time job, I suppose. But in a lot of places not enough.
