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td_sp@lemmynsfw.com 15 hours ago
Damn this community is a fucking joke. It’s actually not funny, just sad.
You all parade around the internet mounted on your high horses about FOSS this, decentralized that, libre this, reject capitalism that, etc.
But the moment you are asked to contribute your part you all start pretending to be holy saints lmfao. Most upvoted comments in these threads go like this:
“I can’t possibly donate to this project because this guy said that thing about trans”
And meanwhile every day you forgo your moral codes to buy all kinds of shit. Otherwise you’d be living in the middle of a remote island.
The people you all buy from don’t merely say something you find offensive, they do lobbying with their truckloads of money that affect how you live your life and further their own agenda.
These Lemmy devs put their work under a license that gives up the ownership and just ask for a living wage, yet by your logic they don’t deserve it?!
AnonomousWolf@lemm.ee 4 hours ago
hakase@lemm.ee 14 hours ago
That’s correct. People actively shilling for authoritarian regimes committing human rights atrocities, denying genocides, and aggressively silencing all dissent do not deserve it.
All they’d have to do is develop from behind the scenes and not actively contribute to one of the worst places on the platform, and I’d have no problem donating to them.
But they don’t, and so I don’t, and instead I get to listen to your whataboutism, literally the guy in the “and yet you participate in society” meme.
nutomic@lemmynsfw.com 14 hours ago
Lemmy dev here, for what its worth I stopped posting about politics years ago, and also dont do any moderation on lemmy.ml besides occasionally banning an obvious spam account. I simply dont have the time or interest anymore, and prefer to focus my time on development which benefits all Lemmy users.
Posting from alt account because these comments are not federating to my home instance.
dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 6 hours ago
el_abuelo@programming.dev 3 hours ago
What would be the correct way to voice opposing views about these issues?
Genuinely asking as to my ignorant eyes this looks like a reasonable way of discussing the issues, so I must have some kind of wrongthink here and would love to be guided back to a place where people can discuss opposing views safely.
hakase@lemm.ee 14 hours ago
If that were to become the enforced position of the entire dev team, I promise that I will donate, and provide receipts.
Ledivin@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
That’s a perfectly sensible position, but the money doesn’t go just to you.
td_sp@lemmynsfw.com 14 hours ago
That meme literally says ‘We should improve society somewhat’ and lemmy is a perfect example of something that is ‘improved somewhat’ when you compare it to literally any other social media driven solely by profit and algorithms that reward whatever content the owners want.
But the keyboard warriors now prefer lemmy die because comments a dev who isn’t in control of the software said… Anyways I’m donating monthly now
dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 6 hours ago
Lemmy won’t die. They’ll have enough money to develop the software if they just take lemmy.ml offline, and then they’d get more donation money overnight.
burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
this is like you going out of your way to offer to give me a ride to the airport, and then you get mad at me for not being gracious enough about it, and then you accidentally hit a pedestrian at some point afterwards and use that against me.
aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee 6 hours ago
No, it’s about someone building a car for you while also driving their own car. The car they built for you is unquestionably good even if you don’t like where they drive their own version. I don’t think it’s unfair for them to ask compensation for maintenance on YOUR version
anas@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
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