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

submitted 1 month ago by squire3@lemmy.world to c/voyagerapp@lemmy.world

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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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[-] gressen@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

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@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] pennomi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

A spiritual successor, if you will.

[-] veeesix@lemmy.ca -2 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Zorque@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] veeesix@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 month ago

My point is that the blueprint of the original app is there whether or not it was rebuilt from scratch. The developer may have rewritten the app themselves, but at the end of the day we’re essentially using Apollo for Lemmy hence the reference.