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They're getting external funding: https://nlnet.nl/project/Lemmy/index.html
Yeah, they get paid depending on the features they deliver; which may or may not be what the community needs, particularly as time-sensitive issues get discovered. Also, what they get paid amounts to below minimum wage. They explain it in a bit more detail here: https://join-lemmy.org/news/2023-06-17_-_Update_from_Lemmy_after_the_Reddit_blackout
So, very different from donations, which come reliably periodically with no strings attached, and can scale very well as usage grows.