"[Software] Developers are the lifeblood of open source projects [...] Loads of people [software developers] end up investing years and years of labor for free"
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"[Software] Developers are the lifeblood of open source projects [...] Loads of people [software developers] end up investing years and years of labor for free"
⸺ Sean Tilley
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"[Software] Developers are the lifeblood of open source projects [...] Loads of people [software developers] end up investing years and years of labor for free"
⸺ Sean Tilley
( @deadsuperhero )@reiver @deadsuperhero I feel like there's more to that quote for some reason? Like a big "but" coming?
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@reiver @deadsuperhero I feel like there's more to that quote for some reason? Like a big "but" coming?
Public Firehose Project Shutters After Backlash - Lemmy
FediOnFire, a Fediverse project similar to Firesky, which offers an IRC-like view of the global firehose, has shut down after a misunderstanding led to community backlash.
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@reiver @deadsuperhero I feel like there's more to that quote for some reason? Like a big "but" coming?
@[email protected] @[email protected] It's a cool quote (and I'm flattered!), but yeah. The bigger picture is that projects live or die on all kinds of contributions, software development probably being one of the biggest.
But, that free labor provided often sees little compensation, assistance, or gratitude, and can lead to a fraught relationship where there's not enough people making not enough money stuck doing too much work, without any kind of off-ramp. This is also true for instance admins, content creators, moderators, etc.
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Public Firehose Project Shutters After Backlash - Lemmy
FediOnFire, a Fediverse project similar to Firesky, which offers an IRC-like view of the global firehose, has shut down after a misunderstanding led to community backlash.
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@reiver @deadsuperhero I mean, that was pretty much guaranteed to happen.
