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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please consider supporting Lemmy development⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Drag hopes their financial system becomes desperate enough, and enough people say it’s about lemmy.ml, that they realise they have little choice but to take lemmy.ml offline.

  The goal is becoming clear. Western-supremacist redditors will not tolerate any communist-friendly spaces on the internet that oppose US foreign policy goals. They can shut our communities down and kick them off reddit, but doing the same on the fediverse is proving difficult. Censorship and anti-communist witch-hunting is their life goal.

  For the record, I would never wish starvation on anyone, regardless of ideology. No one should have to be in a “desperate financial situation”, regardless of who they are and what they believe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please consider supporting Lemmy development⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re asking for donations because they lost the donations they were already getting.

  Nope, not even the tiniest bit. We know how vital lemmy is, and want to secure its long-term future by being entirely sustained by donations. We never at any point reached that goal, and given that nutomic had a new baby, this is more important now than ever.

  hemorrhaging donation money

  I have no idea what this means. We’re paying our daily living expenses so we can comfortably work on lemmy without having to find other work. The costs are food and rent.

  this whole operation is a way too flimsy if it’s depending on these two people, alone, forever.

  I’d love to be able to grow our co-op, and add more developers! Donations make that possible too, especially if they exceed 2 average dev salaries (we’re a long way off from that).

  What happens if they finally get another developer that really knows Rust and wants to join the project but doesn’t “fit in”? How are they actually going to expand the team so this project can grow and not be so dependent on them when they have the reputation they do?

  It’s clear you’ve never tried, because we’ve never and would never reject code contributers for petty reasons like “not fitting in”. If ppl don’t want to work with communists, that’s on them. Personally I’d never reject someone for their ideology, especially if what they’re doing is FOSS, which serves the common good.

  I would like to see this platform expand beyond them,

  We don’t stop people from forking lemmy and never would, that’s entirely their right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be the change you want to see in Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If something’s subpar about it, then do what’s recommended in this post. Open an issue on the repo, or contribute to a fix. It’s open source software.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be the change you want to see in Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately the people advertising lemmy on reddit and elsewhere rarely link join-lemmy.org, and direct people to join a few large instances. So we’ll likely keep having centralization problems for the forseeable future.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Dazzles Citizens with 80% Approval After 100 Days⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  She’s the US’s worst nightmare. An anti-zionist leftist that, like AMLO, is not shy about criticizing US imperialism, and throwing their hypocrisies back in their face.