Comment on Lemmy needs more donations
Sal@mander.xyz 3 days agoThat’s fair. I have a generally positive opinion of the devs even if I disagree with some of their views. Moderating is not easy, and especially not when you get into heated political territory - that’s why personally I “cheat” a bit by dissuading politics within this instance ;) A small select list of mod actions is not something that sways my opinion. It is tricky to process some reports and sometimes we can make bad calls.
But it is true that this context will affect someone else’s opinion differently, so it is good for others to be aware of some of this context before deciding to donate.
Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Don’t get me wrong I really like Lemmy.
I have no love for Tankies though. It’s a difficult position.
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 3 days ago
i still think lemmy will see more adoption if there comes a hard fork. or, really. piefed and mbin might supplant lemmy as being the backbone of the threadiverse as their development continues.
the other possibility is for neutomic and dessalines to step down as maintainers and hand the project to someone else. i see this as unlikely though as they give the impression that their authoritarian communist politics is the entire point of working on lemmy for them.
i guess we’ll wait and see, but for now there’s no way i could see myself donating money to neutomic and dessalines even if my admin took their software and created something good with it. they are simply too vile and dangerous. the threadiverse is the future of reddit-like discussionboards, but i can’t bring myself to view lemmy as the future of the threadiverse
nutomic@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
There is no one else with the skill or interest to take over Lemmy development. I also wonder how you got the impression that “authoritarian communist politics” are my reason to work on Lemmy and give it away for free to everyone.