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On any of the donation threads where it came up and he replied to it, the most he ever did was some half hearted corporate PR "apology" (ironic)

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[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Probably the best admin on this entire platform, but I am biased as I am under their instance.

[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago

Shadow from lemmy.ca is also great. I've never had a single complaint about how they run things.

Agreed, as another person on dbzer lol

[–] Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 3 days ago (1 children)

db0 trying not to be based challenge:

Impossible.

[–] socsa@piefed.social 15 points 3 days ago (7 children)

I mean they still left the begging thread up with the "separate the art from the artist" message, and let Nutomic intentionally mislead users about "developer salaries" not going to support .ml. If they really wanted to be based they would have banned Nutomic for being a greedy little pig boy and told people to donate to Piefed.

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[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Do you do this for every product in the supermarket

Bro where you been? Nestle is the classic example, tesla is a newer one, proton too, chic fil a, etc.

Yeah. People do also boycott stuff. What the fuck does he mean lmao.

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[–] jbk@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

this piece of shit will never get any money from me

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[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 71 points 4 days ago (2 children)

"Do you also perform this kind of background check for every product you buy in the supermarket?"

Uh. Yeah. We do. That's why we're constantly coming on here telling people what companies to boycott. Do you not follow your own movements?

[–] Artyom@lemm.ee 26 points 3 days ago (2 children)

What a weird way to "defend" himself. Of course everyone scrutinizes what they buy in the store and what that company does with their money. People boycott products all across the political spectrum.

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 19 points 3 days ago

He's deeply into the "grasping at straws" stage of this.

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[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, lets start donating to piefed.

[–] throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Meh, maybe some non-tankie (and also non-right-wing) programmer can step up and we start working on a fork and we'll donate? Maybe?

Anyone? 👀

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

^ahem^

Its Called Piefed

the alternative to lemmy is piefed. mbin also exists.

[–] throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Problem is, piefed in run on a different code so you can't just convert the lemmy database into piefed.

With a Lemmy fork, the transition would be seamless.

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[–] Draconic_NEO@sh.itjust.works 31 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is really shitty but it doesn't surprise me at all. He's trying to make a shift because he doesn't want to face repercussions of being labeled transphobic, possibly being widely banned and ostracized.

It's very different when someone actually realizes they were wrong and want to change and be better. Nutomic isn't doing that here, he just wants people to give donations and to avoid fallout from him letting his opinions slip publicly.

[–] socsa@piefed.social 18 points 3 days ago

Bro is literally panicking that he might have to get a real job.

[–] dataprolet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 62 points 4 days ago (104 children)

How can you call "the transgender topic" at all "controversial"? You either support and protect minorities or you don't.
Also, my man db0 is just the goat.

I mean, it is absolutely controversial. Whether or not it should be controversial is what you seem to be referring to. I 100% agree that it shouldn’t be controversial, because human rights should never be controversial. But as it currently stands, it is an extremely divisive topic with strong opinions in both directions; claiming otherwise is outright disingenuous.

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[–] gigachad@sh.itjust.works 46 points 4 days ago
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