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OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

My impression is they're decent about making Lemmy a tech project not a personal political platform

But... isn't it impossible to donate solely to the software, when they also will use the funds to pay server costs for lemmy.ml? The referenced post did not exactly highlight that little tidbit of information... yet isn't it true nonetheless?

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milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Yes, but as pointed out elsewhere,

it works out about 2% of your donation, if that

the devs would be entitled to spend their salary on personal projects anyhow, it’s an effective salary not ngo funds

.ml serves as a useful test server and public beta for the rest of Lemmy

it’s effectively funding every instance, by providing the software - by that metric, the opposite .world gets the larger share

because of the small scales, ordinarily there’s not a lot of sense to separate .ml funding because it’s so small. It’s not like the devs are being devious

To me, that stacks up fairly.
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- OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I'm just being pedantic, but also the problem seems easily solved by having someone else moderate that instance, while they focus on just the coding.
  
  Of course they are 100% free to do as they choose and I would not dream of wanting them to do otherwise.
  
  Then too, the people deciding whether to donate can do the same - and it seems that the rather unusual moderation practices of lemmy.ml are a sticking point for whether they want to contribute funds or not. The amount of those funds, whether the devs have the "right" to do so or not, that is all besides the point. Some people just don't like to fund things like genocide, period.
  
  But now we are veering into political territory that I know less about. Thank you for sharing those facts about the situation, as I continue to learn about it that is very helpful:-).
  
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