yes I made altbot

yes I contributed most of the code

yes I run the main instance and have a server in a data center mainly for it

but. altbot is not only my project. i get busy, I get tired, I get bored. i do what I can to maintain and support it. but help from other people would be also very helpful. like, a proper github issue is better than a fedi dm telling me what's wrong. but contributing a fix to it would help me. a lot more than anything else.

i feel like Ive been in this weird in between, like all my code is open source and copy left, but.. its still only me doing the coding.

Ive gotten help from some close friends, with moral support, sometimes even planning, and processing criticism.

but like.. idk, how high is altbot's bus factor? all the code is opensource.. but would anyone actually step up to maintain it? my honest opinion is no.

and I feel that I somehow failed in specifically building a community for altbot. i somehow made it a thing people use and rely on.. but not a thing that people wanna help fix or work on. and I don't know how to change that to be honest.

or how to even change that for future projects. maybe I don't know how to interest other people codewise. but honestly I just dont know.

i really wish altbot had a community which discussed how to make it better all the time, and where I wouldnt even nessicerally be making the big decisions.

or maybe all this is just wishful thinking..