As much as I dislike the fact that the “flagship” instance for lemmy is an echo chamber that bans for political wrong think, I still think Lemmy on average is a positive and it isn’t funded by ads or vcs so it should be proof against the most common avenues for enshittification.
So I set up a recurring donation despite being someone that would 100% get banned by the people I’m donating to if I were to comment on their instance.
Same way I can’t stand people using one negative within a larger political platform as an excuse to parrot anti-electoralism I feel like I shouldn’t use one unfortunate facet of the fediverse as an excuse not to donate towards its continued development.
Support “better” rather than waiting for “perfect”
conditional_soup@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Eh, if you want to contribute to Lemmy development, then contribute. If you don’t, the. don’t.
cm0002@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Or alternatively, they could stop doing what they’re doing with .ml and loads more people, including myself, would probably start donating towards development
Oh I do, the way I see it there are 4 paths
RN they’re asking for donations, but refusing to deal with the root issue directly leading to such low donations.
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
This. Literally just keep your tankie bullshit to grad and this wouldn’t be an issue.
Problem is, not only is that impossible, they actively don’t want to. They’re the alt for grad and bear users, intentionally acting as a cover for them. The entire point is proselytizing.
ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
To 3. what if I tell you no one is stopping anyone from doing that right now. If you think anyone is going to take over Lemmy 100% should the current devs stop, I wouldn’t say it is such a sure thing.
Now I don’t know why no one made a real fork just yet, but it would be an easy way out of the politics that surround the original. Hasn’t happened yet. Will it ever? Time will tell.
conditional_soup@lemm.ee 2 days ago
I don’t really care that they’re running .ml. It’s fine if it bothers you enough to not donate to them, that’s your business. My SO is never going to agree to let me donate to Lemmy, so I’m going to see if I can eek out some time to learn the codebase and contribute that way.