If all the people complaining would just contribute to the codebase this wouldn’t even be an issue.
Often, you even see the devs coming into threads like this and making suggestions, like “make a pull request.” They want more people contributing.
It’s tons of people whining, very few people contributing. Guess what? While at a certain point, adding developers stops increasing productivity, there’s a small window where adding developers does increase productivity.
If I am correct, Lemmy only has four main developers. That’s well within the range to add more developers and increase the productivity, making new features and security come faster.
So I get it, but things take time, and are complicated, which you thankfully can see.
People whinging about it in threads does nothing to change it. Donating to Lemmy’s development costs or contributing code does.
So much of it sounds like it sounds like its from less-technically-inclined people (some of its valid critique from experts, but they generally… write bug reports and do pull requests…) who just want it to be better but the only way they know how is to “bring awareness.” Well, all that “awareness-bringing” just amounts to spreading FUD.