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I don't understand why people think it's necessary. Does Firefox display ads? Blender? GNU/Linux operating system? VLC video player?
No offense, but I think maybe you are so used to corporations trying to drain your money that you don't notice how much amazing software we are using that was built for free. And this software is often better than the commercial competition (for example it took Microsoft 10-15 years to add workspaces to Windows and tabs to file explorer after they were added in GNU/Linux and it took them over 20 years to add a package manager).
Not only was that software made for free, but it also gives users freedom unlike (usually) the commercial alternatives.
The difference is that it's a hosted platform. This might an issue and if making it a pay only service doesn't come around, ads will. If that happens I'm outta here.
Lemmy's development was funded by the EU. They see a value in decentralized platforms. So perhaps they or some other organizations or corporations will be willing to donate money or servers to Lemmy instances. We should probably look into how Mastodon is doing this.
I know here in Canada that will never happen. Lemmy is just an interm solution for me until I can find something that can run in a terminal
What about this client? https://github.com/mrusme/neonmodem
Thanks. I'll take a look after I install BSD on my computer