Yes, the about site needs a lot of work. The demo site is using the Lemmy frontend but Java Springboot backend. The whole intent of the first milestone release is to be a drop-in replacement for Lemmy. It’s after that where we will differentiate with things like better moderation/admin support, etc… The federation service will be built in Golang. And yeah, we need to do a lot more work on outlining what work needs to be completed in the form of issues. Those 8 for sure are things that need to be done though.

Hi @synlogic@toot.io appreciate it, but we have no budget for paying contributors (we aren’t even covering base costs let along paying ourselves). This is an open source project where we don’t have any plans to monetize the platform itself (we might consider building things down the line that are paid add-ons, but nothing that would be essential for running your own instance self-hosted)

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Something else to consider here would be some kind of batching. A system doing this check should group users together by instance and make a single call to that instance. Something like: “Hey, I have this list of users from your instance. Are they all still active? A, B, C, D…” Reply: “From your request, here is the list of users that I found in my database: A, D”. Now the calling system would know it should remove all data for users B & C.

I don’t want to become a product manager

A lot of what you’ve done here already is very much PM work…. Regardless, whatever path you decide, I’m rooting for you