Yea, I never said they didn’t, and I’m generally a proponent of separating art from the artist.
However, by conflating their official work and furthering their personal politics through the moderation of the lemmy.ml instance (which, whether they like it or not, IS seen as the “dev” or “flagship” or “official” instance) It’s not currently feasible to actually donate money while maintaining “separation of art and artist”
If they turned over admin duties of .ml to a new, as unbiased and fair as possible, admin team nearly all the friction for almost everyone to donating would evaporate. As someone in another thread put it “Devs should do dev work and not mod work, admins should do mod work and not dev work”
Realitaetsverlust@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Good work doesn’t excuse shit behavior. Hell, if you dig deep enough, you will probably find some good things done by musk or trump.
I will not give a single cent to people who defend russia in their aggression against ukraine, no matter what “good deeds” they otherwise do.