Yes nice that they finally upgraded.
By the way, this community is still looking for additional mods: https://feddit.de/post/9357674
You need to be from Europe and have a post history showing a bit about your Lemmy use of Europe related communities.
Not bad for a small hobby project.
Are you referring to the Lemmy project or the Lemmy.world instance? Because Lemmy has two paid devs, and had two a while.
Who is paying them?
Lemmy 2023-10-31 news post, section Funding Drive:
Before the Reddit migration, our income was almost exclusively made up of generous donations from the NLnet foundation. This funding was based on getting paid for implementing new features, specified in advance.
There seem to be considerable recurring donations now too. (Donations page, section Sponsors.)
If you mean "considerable" as in barely above minimum wage, sure... it's either a job or a hobby and if it is a job you need to compare it with what they could earn as software developers elsewhere.
Multiple hundreds is considerable to me and beyond "hobby". It doesn't have to be a full time job or fairly compensated to be more than a hobby.
1.5 k has to be considered in my eyes. It's not negligible or marginal as donations. (Note I labeled donations considerable, not their income - which I don't know. My point was that it's worth mentioning.)
News/Interesting Stories/Beautiful Pictures from Europe ๐ช๐บ
(Current banner: Thunder mountain, Germany, ๐ฉ๐ช ) Feel free to post submissions for banner pictures
(This list is obviously incomplete, but it will get expanded when necessary)
Also check out !yurop@lemm.ee