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What is the best way to support Lemmy specifically and the Fediverse in general financially? (lemmy.world)
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I love the Fediverse and Lemmy. But technically, it still lags behind the big platforms in some areas. And there are many things where I believe the Fediverse will eventually be significantly better than centralized platforms, but which are still underdeveloped. Unfortunately, I can't program myself, or at least not very well. So I'm wondering how I can best support development financially.

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[–] Triumph@fedia.io 11 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Did everyone just forget that the Lemmy devs are tankies?

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Point me to the point in the code where this fact has come up. References to specific lines would be ideal.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago

This ignores how money donated supposedly to support development of the Lemmy codebase goes instead towards moderation of their personal instance. Unless you want to donate to Nutomic specifically (which has other issues), there is no way to donate specifically to develop Lemmy code.

So ironically the answer to your question lies in the lines that are lacking, but that would have been there otherwise.

Bottom line is that it's their code and they can do as they please. Meanwhile, I switched to PieFed. I wish you good luck with that extremely slow-paced development of Lemmy, but I am not putting any hope into it myself anymore.

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 7 points 2 days ago

The main dev is also an admin on lemmy.ml. There would probably be more instances that defederate lemmy.ml if it weren't for that, and the way that account-level blocking is implemented isn't really that great.

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Still better investment than putting your money in, say, Felon or Trump stuff.

[–] Triumph@fedia.io 9 points 2 days ago

"At least I'm not drinking literal shit!" (while drinking a glass of warm piss)

[–] khaleer@sopuli.xyz -5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

And?

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 8 points 2 days ago

And nobody should support an authoritarian piece of shit.

[–] Triumph@fedia.io 8 points 2 days ago

I'm not a fan of giving money to tankies.