Lemmy will never reach critical mass on part time unpaid devs.
Check out Lemmy’s github. These are all “part time unpaid devs”.
If you were really against your usage data being monetized you wouldn’t be using any social media as that’s a core part of how any major social network grows and thrives.
That isn’t how the Fediverse works.
The question isn’t over whether or not developers should make money, but how they make that money.
Eternity used to be Infinity for reddit, one of my favorite reddit apps.
To steel-man this argument, it’s really “Free software supporters are too hostile and demanding, and they’ll scare off developers.”
I have seen no evidence of this happening. Instead, there’s a huge number of Lemmy clients, both open and closed source. I have at least half a dozen installed on my phone, and that’s not even all of them! Compare that to the number of Mastodon clients.
To be honest, that sounds a whole lot like reddit, too.
I am starting to think these FOSS heads are going to kill Lemmy.
The “FOSS heads” are the only reason why Lemmy exists at all.
What you did there. I saw it.