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I try to get involved with the smaller tasks first. Right now, I'm trying to help organize issues on lemmy and lemmy-ui. I mark duplicate issues, reply to ask for more info and so on.
Sometimes I also try to help translate a project.
On the software side of things, I usually just fork the project (given it's on github), and start poking around the codebase, try compiling it, maybe try to change a few things. When I'm comfortable, I'll look into the issues, sometimes they are marked as good-first-issue, and I focus on them first.
But any maintainer out there is happy to receive a pull request, so no need to worry about making an impression or being "allowed" to participate first.