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Lemmy Needs Donations! (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Between Lemmy.world desperately needing new mod tools, Lemmy.ee disabling image uploads, and the two main Lemmy.ml devs working on Lemmy for less than minimum wage, I want to urge and remind everyone to please Donate!

The Lemmy devs have refused advertisements, refused collaboration with Meta, and focused all of their efforts (and then more) to support the wave of users who left Reddit. The Lemmy devs did this, as they let the work owed to their sponsor take the back seat, to give everyone here today reading this message the best experience possible.

Lemmy is already at 1% the size of Reddit, but only has 2 full time employees. Not only do they deserve more for the gruelling hours they've put in, but so does everyone else who's contributed too.

https://join-lemmy.org/support

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I will say that I would be a lot more willing to donate if the soft ban on Ukraine news was lifted.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tell me more? I see Ukraine news. Usually browse by top 6 hour or hot.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ah it's just lemmy.ml with the soft ban. The main "dev" instance.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What is a soft ban?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

An unenforced or inconstantly enforced rule.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Ah ok, thank you. Yeah that would be a barrier to donation for me too. Seems odd.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

It doesn't if you know the politics of the developers of lemmy. That doesn't seem to impact the software though, only the instances they manage, so just use another instance if you don't like those rules.