shout out to the lemmy developers for not making us be stuck on the other site
shout out to mastodon devs for making us have a better life than on Twitter
shout out to the pixelfed devs for allowing a actual photography platform to exist
shout out to the peertube devs for helping us not be stuck on youtube until the end of time
ETA: Shout out to the server operators who make the stuff be done


So someone else would work on that massive project unpaid? :)
Someone with much worse skill levels too, most likely… And for how long would they think it’s fun? Open source is like a full time job for a project like this. You have to be unemployed to do it.
I dont care what the devs believe politically. I’m grateful for their software. I dont need them to be Americans or to like the west. Because I understand they grew up in a very different society than most of us did.