Hey folks!
I’m writing this because funding for the Lemmy project has dropped to critical levels, which could seriously impact its future development.
Thanks to the generous support of our lemm.ee community, our server infrastructure costs are covered, and we even have a few months of runway. I’m deeply grateful to everyone who has contributed - lemm.ee wouldn’t exist without your help.
However, infrastructure alone isn’t enough. Our servers run Lemmy software, and without ongoing development, the platform cannot grow or even be maintained.
Lemmy is an open-source project with many contributors, but the vast majority of development work has been carried out by a small group of core maintainers. A few maintainers work full-time on the project, relying solely on donations and occasional grants to support themselves.
I’ve seen Lemmy development up close, and the maintainers have consistently gone above and beyond what I consider the standard for small open source teams - they are constantly writing code, mentoring contributors, and keeping everything running. Their work is essential, and without continued support, it cannot be sustained.
If you value Lemmy, please consider supporting its maintainers directly. Every bit helps.
Please check out this post for more details about how to support the maintainers: lemm.ee/post/63034576
Thank you for reading, I hope you have a great weekend!
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
People are avoiding supporting lemmy monetarily due to the actions of the developers. We do not reward bad behaviors here. If lemmy development ends most of us will just move to kbin or piefed. This is a non-issue.
peregrin5@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Just like with Elon Musk, if someone wants people to support them monetarily, they shouldn’t work hard to make themselves objectionable to wide swaths of the population they are trying to extract money from.
Irelephant@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
You can argue that, despite their opinions, the lemmy devs provide something of worth.
person1@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
This is not wrong
person1@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Hmm glad I found this post and the comments. I recently came here from Reddit and joined some random communities just to have something in my feed. I was a bit shocked at hammer and sickle posted non-ironically in the meme group. Noting that communists weren’t better than Nazis got me called an ungrateful shit for existing (which I apparently owe to Stalin) and banned. Moved to the second-biggest meme community the search found, where I’m not banned yet but being educated by Westerners that life in communist coutries was cheerful and Holodomor was an oopsie.
I’m glad to hear that this is not all that Lemmy stands for, but a bit disappointed learning that top developers are a part of the problem. I’m conflicted about donating to say the least, and it does not bode well for lemmy adoption in general. I’ll stick around to see if other servers gain momentum, but I’ll need to keep an eye open for other reddit alternatives I guess
hakase@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Most of Lemmy is fine - just avoid the tankie triad of lemmygrad, lemmy.ml, and hexbear and you should be good to go.
Carl@hexbear.net 2 weeks ago
Calling communists as bad as a Nazis is a form of genocide denial. You deserved your ban and you should learn more about history before you comment on it.
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Communism and fascism are entirely different, and conflating the two has roots in Double Genocide Theory, a form of Holocaust trivialization and Nazi Apologia. The Nazis industrialized murder and attempted to colonize the world, the Soviets uplifted the Proletariat and supported national liberation movements such as in Cuba, China, Algeria, and Palestine. I recommend reading Blackshirts and Reds.
Alaskaball@hexbear.net 2 weeks ago
According to the mod logs the only thing you copped a ban for is being uncivil you ungrateful little shit
dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 2 weeks ago
Drag is an anarchist and banned from lemmy.ml for being left wing, so drag hopes you will listen with an open mind to this:
Karl Marx said that communism is stateless. That means in communism, the government has no authority to coerce people. Authoritarianism isn’t communism. In fact, Joseph Stalin never claimed that the USSR had achieved communism. He said they’d achieved socialism, and he made empty promises that it would be communist at some point in the future.
You know where communism was actually successfully implemented? America and Australia. Karl Marx and his friends were inspired by the Haudenosaunee people of North America. Marx called it “primitive communism”.
Alaskaball@hexbear.net 2 weeks ago
Get off your high wooden horse and stomp your way back to reddit
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
If not supporting genocide and authoritarianism is a high horse to you, you might want to invest in a step ladder.
Jimbabwe@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What actions of the developers are you talking about? I’m not trying to start a fight, I’m honestly out of the loop or whatever.
infeeeee@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
See some stories here: !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works
GoodEye8@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
I imagine the biggest point are the censorship, disinformation and tankie allegations. These are all documented in this post. Another point worth bringing up is that they are the admins of lemmy.ml, where most of the allegations happen. Lemmy.ml also has something of a tankie problem and one of the devs has said that the donations will also cover the cost of running the instance. So by donating to the devs you’re also donating to an instance that possibly has no problem with censorship, disinformation and harboring tankies.
I would be willing to turn a blind eye if I could trust the devs to step away from lemmy.ml and focus solely on the development of Lemmy. But I don’t trust the devs enough to actually do that so I personally won’t be supporting Lemmy development until someone else becomes the maintainer of Lemmy.
mathemachristian@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
They’re ^communists^ 😱
lily33@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
This is bs, because you - and perhaps almost everyone else here - are supporting monetarily much worse people than the Lemmy developers.
4n41y4no5@crazypeople.online 2 weeks ago
Then move
doctortran@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Freeloading where? They can be donating to the instance they are on.
Sibshops@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
You can support lemm.ee, then, instead?
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
I might as well since I probably gave Sunaurus a big headache with this thread.
1984@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Those places suck and doesnt even have quality apps…
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
If those issues keep you off them, I’m good with that.
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OpenStars@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Mbin, not Kbin. Kbin is dead.
There actually is one instance left, a tiny little hold-over in Poland, last I checked, but everyone else that was using Kbin has since switched to Mbin.
Except me personally, who switched to PieFed (which is fantastic btw!:-).