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How to get involved in new initiatives for Lemmy (wirebase.org)
submitted 1 year ago by tyfi@wirebase.org to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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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.

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[–] Phegan@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Lemmy currently has two full time devs. In a world where resources are limited, your list, in my mind, are things that can be skipped to ensure quickly adding new features. Much of these asks are common for a larger team, but a small team of two, plus volunteers, anything that takes the team away from active development is likely net negative to Lemmy for the short term. If you want to contribute, great, but putting more work on a small team to allow you to contribute will only slow progress.

[–] tyfi@wirebase.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was thinking in terms of helping build out a team to work on non-dev related work, as opposed to pulling away time from the devs, who I’m sure are heads down. Fair points though!

[–] Phegan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for the positive response. I still expect Reddit style responses where I get eviscerated for raising counter points.

[–] tyfi@wirebase.org 3 points 1 year ago

It’s so toxic most of the time. Same to you!

I’m hopeful that the federated approach results in better discussion overall. Seems like it could!