Speaking or myself, it's simply a matter of time. Even doing the fediverse stuff I'm already doing is stretching me beyond my limits.
About the prs, ye I don't want to do the broken telephone here. The point is there's clearly a sort of disconnect between how welcoming the lemmy developers believe they are and how they are perceived by some other people. It's not an easy problem to solve tbh and requires some honest discussion in good faith with the affected parties.
About the open voting totals, I remember there was a conflict about this. Weren't they are some point hidden on the api? As in if you request the overall voting total for a user you alway get 0?