This is a built-in ad by the devs.
Personally I'm not a fan of their beliefs and stances hence why I am publicly supporting and advocating for the development of Piefed.
This is a built-in ad by the devs.
Personally I'm not a fan of their beliefs and stances hence why I am publicly supporting and advocating for the development of Piefed.
Can't say I have any issue with open source devs putting a request for donations inside the very apps they make tbh. Seems like a reasonable thing to do personally.
I don't mind a request for support in principle, and I regularly donate to other similar projects.
It's the implementation that will ultimately make the request succeed or fail. As in how often is it shown and in what manner.
This. As long as it's non intrusive, and can be disabled/customised on the instance. Many instances would like a way to have funding support from their communities, and I think it's good will to allow the developers to have some.
It's built into lemmy, you'll see it once per year (tracked on your user row in the db)
About a month before lemm.ee went offline there was a huge drama about the devs asking various instance admins to advertise their need for donations. Wild that they are already doing this again
"Our funds" Their server. As always ML is a parasite of the proletariat.
I don't have to agree with a developer's politics to use their software or even support it. as long as it doesn't go towards self-destructive or otherwise bad behavior. When Desalines and Nutomic demanded that we must accept our donations, go towards that. They childishly cut themselves off from a large number of possible donations.
If they want to run such advertisements on their own Instance, that's their own prerogative and more power to them. If they are pushing this on the other people's instances, especially without them opting in. That's so on brand, on many fronts for ML. That it is hilarious.
It appears to be the devs themselves; which continues to track with Dessalines being a piece of garbage.
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