Being on social media is very relevant due to both content discovery algorithms being able to connect people who may be interested in the project with the project itself and because social media sites can have things go viral outside of your own personal reach. Your post can reposted or spread by other accounts easier if its originating from the platform itself instead of hopping someone sees it and copies onto the platform.
Genuine respect to anyone doing thankless package maintenance for free. But maybe the real problem isn't that Debian volunteers go quiet — it's that we have 100 distros on DistroWatch and half of them are the same thing with a different wallpaper?
perhaps nobody would waste their life volunteering on such crockery. this is not a task for a developer but a mindless apparatchik
Dude I play eve online! We compete for these unpaid space jobs where you have to read reports and click a button on a website without even logging into the game.
Heck I play with at least one ports commit guy from a bsd