Some people might find the answer to be obvious (yes) but I’ve rarely found it so. In fact, this is a question I often find in the linux community (regarding linux going mainstream, not lemmy) and people are pretty split upon it.
On one hand, you may get benefits like more activity, more content, more people to interact with, a greater chance you’ll find someone to talk to on some specific subject.
On the other, you could run into an eternal September like reddit, where Lemmy would lose its culture, and have far more spam and moderation issues.
I don’t know, what do you think?
Right, it’s a shame that there isn’t a better culture for supporting developers like there are for other things online. Maybe it’s because you rarely see the actual person(s) behind the software, as you do with say influencers or streamers.
Maybe platforms like Open Collective can help making open software more financially viable. I also like the trend of big corporations sponsoring the software they build upon, like for example Blender: https://fund.blender.org/
Babel (a web compiler) also wrote a relevant blog post some month ago Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of money?