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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's good money.

The Lemmy dev is making around 30k a year. Subtract taxes from that and he's making maybe 25k (at best).

They're very clearly extremely talented software engineers, and you're telling me $12 an hour is "good money"? That's not even above minimum wage in many US states! Do you have any idea how much software engineers make?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Doesn't have to be the only thing you do. Where do you think FOSS software comes from?