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How is Voyager for Lemmy funded? Or is it just community maintained? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm curious how Voyager for Lemmy is funded. Or is it just community driven so the workload and potential costs are spread out far enough that nobody is footing the bill all by themselves?

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[–] [email protected] 101 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Voyager is created by a single person - Alexander Harding. Github lists him as the main contributor, with 58 other people helping. You can sponsor the project on GitHub, Liberapay or Patronite.

[–] veeesix 4 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Voyager might be maintained by a single person, but let’s not fool ourselves who created it. Voyager is a direct clone of Christian Selig’s Apollo for Reddit.

I love Voyager as much as the next Lemming, but I’ll be damned if credit isn’t given where credit is due.

[–] [email protected] 78 points 2 days ago (2 children)

AFAIK the Apollo source code was never open sourced. So while the UX is clearly a successor to Apollo, the code was built from the ground up.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 days ago

A spiritual successor, if you will.

[+] veeesix -35 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I suppose it depends on your perspective of the ship of Theseus.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago (1 children)

As I recall that hypothetical requires that you start with the ship and replace things over time, not that you saw it once and try to replicate it.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 days ago

Christian did not create Voyager. It's UI is an homage to Apollo but he had nothing to do with it. Calling him it's creator is pure nonsense.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Precisely why I use it.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

When Apollo died, a bit of my soul went too. Voyager really helped with the transition.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

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