Hi all. Very happy to see Lemmy’s success so far. I’m interested in contributing to Lemmy’s growth.
At this stage, the engineering team should consider bringing some additional public-facing structure, such as:
1. Published roadmap
2. Performance metrics and reporting
3. Community outreach - keeping user base in the loop on roadmap, launches, metrics, growing pains
Lemmy will continue to grow regardless, however bringing some structure will onboard new users faster and add trust to Lemmy’s image. Trust factor is important - Reddit refugees are evaluating alternatives to Reddit, and are ultimately choosing off relatively little information.
What is the best way to get involved in new initiatives for Lemmy? I have experience with this type of work (engineering manager at a large tech company), focused on building teams, product roadmaps, and continually improving customer experiences through engineering.
Not to sound rude or anything - but I’m getting big corporate vibes from this post which really isn’t what Lemmy is trying to be. If you want to offer that kind of support, look at getting involved with individual instances. They are probably closer to a product than Lemmy is. The Lemmy project doesn’t need that kind of corporate structure to it. It’s not a charitable organization or Reddit 2.0.
Furthermore Lemmy users are not customers nor is Lemmy a product and it worries me that you would want to see it in this lens.
Might have been written by ChatGPT? lol. He does have a point though, if someone wants to contribute, it’d be nice to know what the devs would actually merge.
Mind you I’m happy that they seem driven to contribute and want to know more about the process and how to potentially help. It’s really just the vibe of the post that’s off putting.
For contributing to the project, you can always submit issues to discuss next steps or possible ideas and implementation. It’s not just “here’s code please merge”. Being a contributor to an open source project also involves participating in discussions about the future of the project which you can usually do through mailing lists or issues for most projects.
For Lemmy specifically there is already a process for feature requests and discussions here
Don’t mind my corpo speak man. Just trying to take the experience I have to help out.
Happy to hear :) truly, thank you for wanting to get involved. My corporate trauma is speaking
Lol, it stays with all of us
I’m just talking about contributing time to helping develop a platform. Corporations are good at process - so yes, there are definitely lessons to be learned there that should be implemented in any platform that is quickly growing (eg: putting a team of volunteers together to help out)