Mind you I’m happy that they seem driven to contribute and want to know more about the process and how to potentially help. It’s really just the vibe of the post that’s off putting.
For contributing to the project, you can always submit issues to discuss next steps or possible ideas and implementation. It’s not just “here’s code please merge”. Being a contributor to an open source project also involves participating in discussions about the future of the project which you can usually do through mailing lists or issues for most projects.
For Lemmy specifically there is already a process for feature requests and discussions here
Happy to hear :) truly, thank you for wanting to get involved. My corporate trauma is speaking