Entitlement in open source is a real thing
Goes both ways, from/by developers and from/by users.
demands on so few people, entitled to their free labor while contributing nothing back, is a terrible thing to do to a person.
Demands:
- They’ve never opened a single issue or PR.
- no specific feature requests t
- never opened any issue for the features he wanted
- not[sic] did he attempt to contribute with a pull request
- switch to a different platform, …
And the entitlement is pretty damn strong from your side too. It’s an open source project that is your baby; I get it. What makes you entitled to other people doing everything except the actual code portion, for YOU? If it gets to the point of needing an ‘RFC’ to contribute code to Lemmy or even request a change…
Well, good luck. Why should people do your work that you get paid to do (as said often by yourself and Nutomic), when they aren’t getting paid a cent?? That is the epitome of entitled. You want free work, but you don’t want to give your work for free
Maybe there’d be plenty more devs if it wasn’t written in a new, up and coming, difficult language to understand let alone master. Maybe there’d be more code contributions if existing ones weren’t closed because you don’t see this being an issue. Maybe there’d be more developers if you’d let there be.