• Blaze@discuss.tchncs.deOP
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    1 year ago

    Lemmy is also kind of struggling to get contributors onboard due to Rust not being that popular for Web.

    Maybe mbin will become a viable equivalent just by having more contributors. Let’s see

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      1 year ago

      I wonder if a platform that’s using more enterprise-y components would make things easier to onboard contribs? Java/Kotlin in Spring Boot w/React?

      With the right contribution guidelines and solid PR pipelines to ensure code quality, it seems like pretty much any engineer could hop in and start developing. Especially if local resources like containers could be leveraged to allow rapid development.

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        1 year ago

        That could work. I’m always surprised that with 30k monthly active users, most of them tech people, there’s not a few Java dev who started a project