Hey everyone, hope you’re doing well. For some time, lemmy’s been struggling with donations. For all these years, the lemmy devs, like them or hate them; have been building the software that powers the entirety of the forumverse (that’s what i’m calling it, fuck you) so if you have even a dollar/euro/peso/whatever to give, it would be greatly appreciated (by the lemmy devs, and all instance admins!)
Good day to y’all :D
crossposted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/29579005
An open source project the size of Lemmy needs constant work to manage the project, implement new features and fix bugs. Dessalines and I work full-time on these tasks and more. As there is no advertising or tracking, all of our work is funded through donations. Unfortunately the amount of donations has decreased to only 2000€ per month. This leaves only 1000€ per developer, which is not enough to pay my bills. With the current level of donations I will be forced to find another job, and drastically reduce my contributions to Lemmy. To avoid this outcome and keep Lemmy growing, I ask you to please make a recurring donation:
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Lemmy represents a new type of social media which is the complete opposite of Reddit. It is split across many different websites, each with its own rules, and managed by normal people who actually care about the users. There is no company and no profit motive. Much of the work is carried out by volunteer admins, mods and posters, who contribute out of enthusiasm and not for money. For users this is great as there is no advertising nor tracking, and no chance of takeover by a billionaire. Additionally there are no builtin political or ideological restrictions. You can use the software for any purpose you like, add your own restrictions or scrutinize its inner workings. Lemmy truly belongs to everyone.
Dessalines and I work fulltime on Lemmy to keep up with all the feature requests, bug reports and development work. Even so there is barely enough time in the day, and no time for a second job. Previously I sometimes had to rely on my personal savings to keep developing Lemmy for you, but that can’t go on forever. We partly rely on NLnet for funding, but they only pay for development of new features, and not for mandatory maintenance work. The only available option are user donations. To keep it viable donations need to reach a minimum of 5000€ per month, resulting in a modest salary of 2500€ per developer. If that goal is reached Dessalines and I can stop worrying about money, and fully focus on improving the software for the benefit of all users and instances. Please use the link below to see current donation stats and make your contribution! We especially rely on recurring donations to secure the long-term development and make Lemmy the best it can be.
The devs activly support calls for the deaths of all americans on ML. There needs to be a way of supporting the codebase without supporting the core devs…
Ok but also lowkey fuck america
this feels more like an endorsement for donating than an indictment.
Honestly if America was gone I think we’d be better off tbh
Support the codebase without supporting the people who write the codebase seems impossible. Unless you want to fork it and then take the money for that.
Yeah, theres a whole universe of solutions if youre actually interested in finding them…
Sure, I am open to hearing it.
ok, im just spitballing here but what if, there was like a community of devs that took donations to develop the code. but this time they dont actively support calls for genocide, or deny obvious genocides or something like that. maybe a charity could be involved…
Is there any source to that claim? It sounds ridiculous even by lemmygrad and hexbear standards
Here I talk about how a tankie called for my death, I called him stupid, and dessalines banned me.
https://lemmy.world/post/20389892
Perhaps I need more coffee, but I don’t see where a hexbear or .ml person said that. I see the modlog where you said they said that, and then got removed/banned, but I don’t see someone from Hexbear saying it.
Maybe I’m just missing something, however.
EDIT: Checked the post, you were defending an IDF soldier being happy with murder. When confronted with this, you went “how is a genocide? How is Israel the bad guy?” You clearly deserved to have your post removed.
You also went to Hexbear, violated the rules, and then complained that you were banned for the rules being enforced. You were being a troll and then claimed victim when you were called out.
You seem to be intentionally misconstruing what I said.
Youre fabricating this quote from me:
This is exactly the tactic of the tankies I was confronting whem I got banned from ml…
The screenshots of your own words seem to suggest:
Unless the link you gave is actually proof of the opposite.
The screen shot is me saying the exact opposite, im explaining how I dont support the IDF but all the tankies are lying and pretending im saying the opposite, and theyre lying about not seeing the threat. Highlight the part of your screenshot where I defend the IDF or Isreal… you cant because its not in there.
All you need to do is read the comments in the link I posted to see a screenshot of the threats, but you seem to intentionally avoid reading them…
EDIT: heres a screenshot for ya:
just from context, I can gather that this is discussing Hila Kline of the H3 podcast, and I think it’s kind of wild that anyone would still be trying to claim that her attitude about her illegal activities while serving in the IDF is anything other than pride, or at a minimum defense. “She’s literally never said those words” isn’t really a defense when plenty of other (far braver) ex-IDF soldiers have come forward to comment on their own regret of participating in war crimes and genocide, even if they had no knowledge of their illegality at the time. Hila herself acknowledges this as a genocide (at least, she acknowledges the administration as genocidal), so I’m not sure why else she wouldn’t address that accusation if not because she feels proud of her service.
The comment you’re highlighting isn’t even close to supporting calls to the death of all americans, and in fact I think the sentiment it’s expressing is the bare-minimum acknowledgement americans should have for their country’s origin. Maybe you just find it uncomfortable being confronted by reality, but it’s a factual statement to say the US is a settler-colonial state, and we are all settler-colonists. I don’t see any problem with acknowledging that as a verifiable statement.
I feel like someone on an anarchist instance should be able to at least acknowledge the past and current crimes of their imperialist nation state of origin without feeling personally threatened about it.
The only person here denying genocide is you! I denounce isreals and americas genocides. I dont like that I was born in a colonial state, but you are looking at comments saying I should be killed because I was born in a certian geograpahy and saying it makes you want to donate…
To you commies it doesnt matter what we say, only where we were born. You attack hila becase she was born in isreal. It doesnt matter that she denounces the IDF genocide, you guys just lie that she liked killing babies and heinous other things.
so your argument is, and I want to ge this clear as an outside observer is, when screenshots of what you said are brought up “I did not say that its all the evil Commies who are lieing” dispite the plain text showing that what you are saying is the one that does not proport with reality?
You showed up out of the blue to compleetly misrepresent me and have no screenshots of me defending isreal or the IDF because I never have. all you have is a screenshot from some hexbear slandering me but are unable to find the clear death threats against me. All youre doing is proving my point that tankis will show up and lie.
Another example why “unlimited genocide on the first world” remains relevant
(libs not getting JDPON memes is funny AF)
As an American, death to America and all its cultists known as citizens who worship its civil religion of exceptionalism. 🫡🫡
How many layers of irony am I even on here.Well, you can always do the liberal thing instead and sell Lemmy off to a billionaire parasite like Zuckerberg or Bezos. I’m sure they will always welcome another right-wing social media mouthpiece.
Take your pick.
Liberals would rather have Lemmy die than fund the services and servers, it’s rather telling they want one unified opinion to be for all of Lemmy. And if the devs wanted the same thing, they’re evil and trying to control the platform.
Right now dbz0 is having people brigade it because we want to have AI on our platform. They’re mad we have our own rules on our own instance.
Right? Like isn’t that the entire point of the Fediverse? Aren’t we meant to be able to exist in little instances with values that we align with? And if people don’t like it, they’re free to move somewhere else, or peacefully block us and our ways?
Tell that to the .world users who wants dbzer0 gone because we don’t like copyright.
.world is the worst of the large activity groups, and it is worse because they are big enough they can start to manufacture concent that everyone else is bad, and then scare people off from the other instances. They to me feel like a group of people who are only mad at reddit because reddit hurt them, but have no issue with the fraimwork that made reddit reddit, and so are creating a distilled version of reddit.
It’s like how some people on Mastodon didn’t make new instances to break free from the corporate social media landscape, but to maybe become the next Zuckerberg or Jack Dorsey.
It’s not about a statement or philosophy, it’s just to copy what worked previously without understanding why people want a federated, algorithm free system. It’s “Well if they can start a system that made them rich in 2005, maybe I can in 20XX.”
lemmy.world wants to be the default instance. Major players are wanting to boycott lemmy.ml and are actively cheering that it’s hurting the development team. They don’t even know what the service they use does or works. They just like the idea of hurting the development because 4 people were mean to them once.