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  • I understand your frustrations on lack of features you need.

    The first one you quoted is not to point out your inability to dictate the direction. It is for the suggested actions I want to make.

    I work in software industry. To my understanding your analogy to foundation and house is spot on but there is some major flaw. After building the house the foundation cannot be redone. In software, in this case API and clients, they can be changed anytime.

    Technically, Lemmy server is backend + frontend and done in Rust programming language. Voyage is frontend and done in Typescript and ionic. To come back to your analogy, your suggestion is like asking interior designer to do structural engineering. (aeharding could be proficient in both frontend and backend but I don't know)

    If you have the extra resources to donate to charity, you could do one of my suggestions instead. It will make more work done for both Lemmy and voyager app. This is just my opinion.

    As far as I know Lemmy has been created some years ago and most of us knew it now because of reddit API changes. Lemmy is not feature complete as existing commercial one. The voyager app also is not feature complete. A lot of people are working happily and free for both Lemmy server and clients. So your opinion and suggestions to emphasize on Lemmy server dev is not very popular (at least I could say that seeing your downvotes).

    P.S. you drop a lot when you quote me.

  • If you are not a benevolent dictator or core contributor of the project, I think you cannot directly dictate what should be done. But you can always vote which should be prioritized first.

    Things you can do are

    • hire developers to work on the issue you mentioned
    • bounty the issue or donate (some FOSS asks for donation for specific feature e.g. Wayland support for Barrier)
    • create a campaign to raise money to solve the issues

    For me, none of the issues are deal breaker for me.