Individual open source project maintainers are in such a difficult spot. People love to recommend users to open source projects as a better alternative to, say, reddit. But users forget that Reddit has tons of employees, engineers, revenue streams like advertising, VC funding, etc etc. Users get their expectations out of line because to them, both services are "free" despite having massively different resources.
Individual open source project maintainers are in such a difficult spot. People love to recommend users to open source projects as a better alternative to, say, reddit. But users forget that Reddit has tons of employees, engineers, revenue streams like advertising, VC funding, etc etc. Users get their expectations out of line because to them, both services are "free" despite having massively different resources.