https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5613
There’s two “full time” Lemmy developers, and one of them just added a repeating dialog box that will pop up regardless of instance asking for money to be sent to his and another lemmy.ml admin’s personal accounts as a salary.
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Why do you feel negative about it? I like lemmy and asking for yearly donation by people that actually put hours isn’t a crime in my opinion.
I might be reading this wrong, but does it not say “yearly”? It may be repeating, but if that frequency is once a year, I’m willing to live with that.
The big deal to me is it’s being added to the base code, to go out on all instances.
People will see “Lemmy developers” and assume it’s related to their instance, and not realize it’s the “salary” for two admins on one of the most problematic instances around.
It feels like other people took the free code, did well with it, and now the creators suddenly believe in capitalism and want rewarded for their labor.
If the only instance using Lemmy was lemmy.ml, most of us wouldn’t be here, but they want to profit off of us because our instances used free code.
This is very standard in the open-source world. No matter what you may think of the developers’ personal opinions, their work is valuable.
Also, asking for donations is not “profiting off of us(sic)”, nor is it a salary, it’s just a text prompt hoping you’ll give the devs a kickback for their contribution. You can just ignore it and go about your day.
They likely don’t make enough to live off of from those donations.
They likely don’t make enough to live off of from those donations.
If it took them 4 years to make a reddit clone and it still takes two people full time to where they can’t work…
Then they’re not doing much, certainty nothing that’s irreplaceable
Tell me you don’t know what you’re talking about without telling me you don’t know what you’re talking about.
