There is no problem using Lemmy without donating.

Nobody will stop you, it’s just extremely convenient to be so against their views and at the same time benefit from it.

If the devs wanted donations they probably shouldn’t have pissed everyone off.

So, for their work to be worth being paid, they should not hurt your feelings, and as they did, you are entitled to use their work for free until it dies for lack of resources? That’s a very strange take.

They are offering up their own labor for free and there is no obligation for me to donate.

True! Let the project die! … Right?

I don’t like the pressure put on my the community to donate just for the sake of donating.

You know that’s not “for the sake of donating”, you just don’t want to donate for someone with a political view different from yours, but want to keep benefiting from it. It’s very hypocritical on your part.

I don’t mind giving money but it has to be earned. I don’t give free lunch.

You mind if they think differently from you.

I can not in good conscious support the Lemmy devs.

But can benefit from their work… Until you can’t because the project will die if they start to think and act like you.

That doesn’t mean I have to stop using Lemmy.

True. Aren’t we lucky that the tankies are working for the benefit of the community instead of looking for profit?

2500 eur to work as a developer in a project this size, full of ungrateful users. These guys are acting as saints, I would totally consider pausing/abandoning it if my basic needs were not met.