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carlisle@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week agoI don’t disagree that that happens in our world, but Hack Club really isn’t advertising products like you insinuate. And I really don’t see how simply accepting a sponsorship is inherently evil. By that logic, do you also think that open source projects like KDE Plasma, GNOME (both sponsored by Google, Canonical etc), Fedora (sponsored by red hat) etc are also bad because they’ve accepted sponsorships from giant tech companies?
diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
Yes, I plan on moving to BSD. I don’t use Plasma anymore.
Talk a bit on Lemmy, join a few communities, engage in comments. There’s no algorithm which will only show you stuff you like. Come back in a month and see if your opinion changed.
carlisle@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Huh. Personally I think developers getting paid is not inherently evil.
So you recommend Lemmy? Personally I like it so far too. Totally unrelated fun fact… Lemmy also has sponsors. Are you gonna leave Lemmy now? opencollective.com/lemmy
diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
That OpenCollective page doesn’t list any corporations, it’s community funded. Biggest donation of all time is 2.8k freedoms. Nutomic is a bit of an asshole, yes, but Lemmy may continue without him regardless in case of anything.
carlisle@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
So accepting sponsorships is ok until a business donates or someone donates a substantial amount? And at that point you have to stop using Lemmy?