I'm just being pedantic, but also the problem seems easily solved by having someone else moderate that instance, while they focus on just the coding.

Of course they are 100% free to do as they choose and I would not dream of wanting them to do otherwise.

Then too, the people deciding whether to donate can do the same - and it seems that the rather unusual moderation practices of lemmy.ml are a sticking point for whether they want to contribute funds or not. The amount of those funds, whether the devs have the "right" to do so or not, that is all besides the point. Some people just don't like to fund things like genocide, period.

But now we are veering into political territory that I know less about. Thank you for sharing those facts about the situation, as I continue to learn about it that is very helpful:-).