Open source seems more like a marketing tactic for the retards that can’t code like me

Coding is very abstract and requires a lot of very specific language knowledge along with concentration requirements. It’s not easy for everyone unfortunately to understand and have the knowledge required. I’m trying to learn! It’s no joke though. (Unlike fartsite.info which is a joke)

Not talking smack or anything, but some project documentation might help with that. I haven't looked through damus, so you may have some there since it is more mature, just from what I see in the notedeck repo.

The whole stack grew too big. It’s not easy to setup an iOS project, even if it’s open source.

Even for capable coders, it is far from easy to just jump into some open source project and fix a bug. Getting familiar with the code, setting up a project to work with your local dev tools (or setting up entirely new tools needed for the project), learning how to test a change (even if the project ...

Jumping into an unfamilar codebase is really time consuming even for experienced devs. It would have to be a really meaninful fix that directly correlates to time saved / life improvement, for me to do something like this.

The onboarding documentation for casual contributions needs to start from "what is version control, what is the concept of a pull request, what are the ways to contact the devs and who is the dev to contact and for what?" Then the documentation must declare the process of setting up the development ...

We have other cool shit to do that others can't or don't want to do.

Coding is one of the few things i know almost NOTHING about 😓 Sorry 🤷‍♂️ Hopefully one day

Everyone's saying it's too hard to learn a codebase and fix something. This is not always true. In the case of small issues or typos, I can often jump into a well organized but completely unfamiliar codebase, find what I'm looking for an fix it in a matter of minutes. The real time sink is gettin...

That’s not bad considering