As far as I understand it, the development team of Lemmy is bigger than that, but nutomic and dessalines as the founders and paid to develop lemmy full-time of course are the most important ones.

@sleeplessone@lemmy.ml is a maintainer of lemmy I think and

@dullbananas@lemmy.ca is a maintainer of lemmy backend?

Not sure about the status of flamingos and phiresky who also contribute to the codebase and were part of the recent AMA

I appreciate the transparency! :)

I feel sorry for your situation. But at least in lemmy the dev are willing to try to resolve this problem. Low chance is still better than zero chance.

Here is an wild idea. Since a few communities are so divided and clearly they only have a good time when they talk to ppl exactly like them. Flame war happens when two groups of hardcore opposed users argue. Since normal users won’t have all days to argue with either side, if one side leaves, the wars is ended.

So instead of banning users by admin or blocking one users each time by users. Can we have allow users to create their own public group (or a gang)? Users can join any groups. Instead of blocking one user, users can simply block the whole group. Posts and comments will be hided if blocking.

Advantages:

1. No banning is needed means admin’s time and gang members’ time can be saved.
2. finally no one disagree with those gangs members anymore, so I guess they’re happy
3. instead of using time from admin and uninvolved users, users who frequently involved controversial topics everywhere should spend their own time to create a group for staying in their comfort zone.
4. uninvolved users don’t have to read all those flame war

Disadvantages:

1. those gangs become more extreme cuz they miss the opportunity to understand each other
2. dev have to do more work
3. server may have more load
4. some users might say those gangs should host their own instances

Ps: I don’t use the term community because our board is also called community. I don’t want to mix them up. May be i should call it users group, but I am too lazy. I do agree better word should be used.

I don’t know the solution, but something needs to be done at a system level to give users a way to remove mods and change how communities are managed.

Maybe just start an instance where politics are banned?

I’m specifically not on a tankie website; I’m on an anarchist website that is federated with a tankie website. The largest reason most instances still federate with .ml is because it’s the only instance that the devs will use. So if you want to actively follow Lemmy’s development, (and despite the devs’ problematic attitudes, I think everyone here wants Lemmy to succeed), you need to federate with .ml.

no, no no they mean the modern definition of tankie: Someone left of Kamala Harris (everyone knows she’s as left as it gets before you horseshoe theory around and become red fash)

Actually lemmy.ml hosting is only funded via Opencollective, so if you donate through any other platform the money goes entirely to developer salaries.

Took me a moment to understand the point. But I agree, from a transparency view alone. The users of .ml should be funding .ml, not the people trying to keep lemmy as a project alive. Generally, large insrances should be funding the project, not the project those instances imo.

The fact that there aren’t a lot of users to give feedback. Lemmy.ml is like a public beta channel, in a way.

We always put out calls before (major) releases, but very few ppl actually help test. This means a lot of bugs only get spotted when more eyes see them in production.

All of these issues are solved in the corporate world by paying quality assurance / testing teams, but open source projects don’t have those resources.