cross-posted from: https://rekabu.ru/post/3857348
Since a lot of people are asking what happened, here's some context.
Recently Nutomic requested more donations to Lemmy. This was cross-posted everywhere (like here, here, here, here, here). And, inevitably, people started calling out things like:
- The devs' defence of authoritarian regimes;
- tankie here, tankie there;
- lemmy .ml extremely shitty moderation practices;
- Nutomic's transphobic message; etc.
as reasons to not donate to the development.
That should be enough to get the meme OP shared.
My take on this matter.
If I don't do this, odds are some assumptive trash will assume = lie = bullshit words into my mouth.
The criticism against the devs is mostly valid, but not the full picture - even if they say all this shit, they're still creating a platform that enables people to fight against it, and this should be taken into account.
So it's all about balancing those two things, you know? On moral and practical matters. For me at least the balance is overall positive; I'd be donating to the platform if I wasn't broke. Plus, continued Lemmy development benefits us, and if they need to take a job the development slows down.
But, still... I get people who won't support them, I don't think that they're completely wrong, it's just that they weight things different than I do. Either way, people should not focus on picking sides, but on being fair.
I'd also like to encourage people who don't want to contribute with Lemmy to do it for either PieFed or Sublinks. Both are independent from Lemmy, compete with it, but are still part of the Fediverse.