Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month

• lasers4eyes@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Because a couple weeks ago, the lemm.ee crew made a post asking for donations and their comment section immediately went dumpster fire mode. Not saying they can't ask for donations, but I can imagine its very problematic considering that the lead developers themselves are very hateful, transphobic and have questionable political opinions.

  You cannot possibly convice me that didn't somehow influence this decision to shutdown the instance. And if lemmy doesn't find a way to keep that stuff down we're def gonna see more instances shutting down.

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  • nokturne213@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Iirc the request for donations was a repost from .ml the instance run by the devs of lemmy software, not a request by the admins of lemm.ee for support.

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    • lasers4eyes@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I think we're talking about different posts, here is the one I'm talking about: lemm.ee/post/63041344

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      • nokturne213@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Same post. There is a link from that post to the ml post. In your link the admin says money is good for lemm.ee donate to ml.

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      • SorteKanin@feddit.dk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        No, that post is a request from the lemm.ee admins to donate to Lemmy, the software. Not to donate to lemm.ee. You’re talking about the same post.

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  • SorteKanin@feddit.dk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Because a couple weeks ago, the lemm.ee crew made a post asking for donations

    They didn’t, that was a post asking to donate to lemmy, the software.

    You cannot possibly convice me that didn’t somehow influence this decision to shutdown the instance.

    I can because it’s completely irrelevant, and what stopped this instance seems to have nothing to do with the development, but rather to do with the amount of volunteers and their work load.

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