This is the part that I think will make it more difficult, since I imagine there are quite a few devs that would rather contribute to projects by less politically-outspoken project owners.

(I would also note that they don't deny being tankies, and tankies tend to insist they aren't fascists. They also deny the Uyghur genocide so they have that going for them too.)

[–] C8H10N4O2@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This exactly. I'm a software engineer and I'm itching to contribute to one of these systems, but I do not agree with some of the stuff I've seen posted by one of the developers of Lemmy. It just leaves a sour taste in my mouth about the whole thing.

[–] FeenisBoobicus@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Same here, despite the fact that Lemmy is built on Rust and React which I find far more technically interesting, I’ve decided to help out on Kbin, which is fullstack PHP.

[–] wchill@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

I wish I could have Kbin but in Rust + React (would be far more useful for me to learn than modern PHP). Guess we can't have it all

[–] Widget@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

I've at least heard people defending PHP recently. Supposedly it's, uh, better than before.

That said if there was a community fork of Lemmy that people started organizing around I wouldn't mind seeing if there was something I could help with.

[–] C8H10N4O2@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I'm probably going to bite the bullet and start working on Kbin too. I've avoided PHP for my entire career just by chance, so all I know are the memes and what I've read of (usually older) codebases. From what everyone says, modern PHP isn't really that bad, and from what I can tell when perusing the Kbin source, the implementation is pretty clean.

[–] iorale@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

The software is open-source, you or anyone who knows the language could fork it and work on it, hopefully someone less problematic.

[–] YuzuDrink@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago

I keep hoping to see a small group of Rust devs fork Lenny and just take it over and make it non-tankie, and then hosts can switch over to that codebase and the original devs can fade into obscurity.