Technology transfers have also been a large part of China's strategy, which results in large firms voluntarily transferring IP in exchange for large contracts. It's unfortunate that in many other places, we're still doing lowest bidder private contracting plagued by cost overruns.
Thanks for asking! [email protected] has been covering everything thus far. He's been putting in a lot of work to get lemdro.id setup in a way that scales exceptionally well for demand while also keeping costs low. He'll be setting something up soon to allow us to pitch in. We had been nagging him about letting us contribute, but he wanted to get the costs down before accepting any assistance.
More to come. Feel free to also join us on the Matrix Space, which includes a publicly available read-only Admin chat as part of our overall vision of being a transparent and fully open sourced instance - https://matrix.to/#/#lemdro.id:matrix.org.
We're certainly open to it. Our general aim is to help facilitate migrations over from Reddit, so we can get in touch with them to see if they're interested.