After the (temporary) defederation announcement of earlier i checked the Lemmy repo to see if there was already a ticket on the federation limiting option like Mastodon’s that people mentioned Lemmy doesn’t yet have. Not only i didn’t find it, i also saw that there’s about 200+ open tickets of variable importance. Also saw that it’s maintained mostly by the two main devs, the difference in commits between them and even the next contributors is vast. This is normal and in other circumstances it’d grow organically, but considering the huge influx of users lately, which will likely take months to slow down, they just don’t have the same time to invest on this, and many things risk being neglected. I’m a sysadmin, haven’t coded anything big in at least a decade and a half beyond small helper scripts in Bash or Python, and haven’t ever touched Rust, so can’t help there, but maybe some of you Rust aficionados can give some time to help essentially all of Lemmy. The same can be said of Kbin of course, although that’s PHP, and there is exacerbated by it being just the single dev.

  • SQL_InjectMe@partizle.com
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    @mobyduck648@mobyduck648@beehaw.org

    They probably could use more manpower to some extent but we’re all forgetting The Mythical Man-Month; just chucking more bodies at a software project doesn’t necessarily speed it up any more than nine women can have a baby in one month.

    Sure, but look at the rapid progress llama.cpp made in the past 3 months, especially in the 1-2 weeks after its launch


    btw, my instance just linked to this community so I don’t see your comment (which is why this is a root level comment)

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      If you copy a link to the comment and put it into a search bar (on your instance) you can force a server to prioritise this one comment to load on your instance. Then you can reply with your comment.

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      Hey, you should point out that Georgi Gerganov is a 100xer programmer and slapped together llama.cpp in a weeknd

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        Yes but my point is that 6 pages of PRs were created within 10 days of the repo being launched which was accomplished by chucking a lot of bodies at the project.