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Suggestion: Independent Lemmy instances like lemmy.world should change the donation link at the top and remove the Join Lemmy link in the footer. (self.lemmyworld)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ConfusedLlama to c/lemmyworld

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I think it's already widely known that the developers of the Lemmy software hold questionable/extreme ideas, which they don't hide. ~~I think it is not good to give them money or extra publicity, since that could drive away new users when they find out. Also money better not go into extremist hands.~~

~~I think there should instead be a donation link to help the instance maintainers and moderators.~~

Ideally however, it would be best if instance owners joined hands and forked Lemmy under a totally new branding and used that on their servers instead, in order to completely disassociate from Lemmy the software and its developers.

EDIT: You all have good points. On second thought, maybe you're right: it would not be decent to not donate them for their work. However I'm still not happy that genocide-deniers get this publicity :(

EDIT2: Just so that you don't think I'm making this up, please see this well-researched list of sources from the user spirit.

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[–] impulse 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I really hate the fact that every good thing that happens will get fucked up by politics and religion in one way or another.

First of all and I mean this as someone new to the platform and genuinely not aware: What first party sources do you have to support your claims? I honestly don't care about regurgitated comments and stuff like that.

With that out if the way there's an obvious problem with that idea: Wether you like whatever political or religous views they truly have or not, they are the people actively developing this platform.

Especially in this time where every instance is creaking under the load of new users and bug reports and feature request are at an all-time high, I wouldn't try to mess with their donations. Developing this platform is a monumental task for a small team of devs and it seems like donations are already pretty scarce from their latest post.

Sure, over time contributions and PRs will increase, as more people get comfortable with the codebase. Still without the core team development may be seriously crippled for a long time.

[–] ConfusedLlama 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I agree with most of what you said. As for the sources, you can read this thread and the replies from the main developer (dessalines): https://lemmy.world/post/24798

Even more first-party sources, the essays of the main developer: https://github.com/dessalines/essays

I don't care if they're Marxist-Leninists, but I do care about genocide denialism. Here's what they think about the Uyghur genocide by the Chinese government: https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/socialism_faq.md#whats-going-on-with-the-uyghurs

The rest of the FAQ is also interesting

EDIT: Please also read this comment for many more sources: https://lemmy.world/comment/311333

[–] impulse 1 points 1 year ago

Holy hell.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What first party sources do you have to support your claims?

https://github.com/dessalines

One of the main devs github, check out their essays repo. They have control over the next server and client binaries (mobile app).

What happens if they decide it's time for the revolution?

[–] ulu_mulu -1 points 1 year ago

What first party sources do you have to support your claims?

Regurgitated personal comments, that's what people have going on with this bullsh*it "boycott".