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.
I will say that I would be a lot more willing to donate if the soft ban on Ukraine news was lifted.
Tell me more? I see Ukraine news. Usually browse by top 6 hour or hot.
Ah it’s just lemmy.ml with the soft ban. The main “dev” instance.
What is a soft ban?
An unenforced or inconstantly enforced rule.
Ah ok, thank you. Yeah that would be a barrier to donation for me too. Seems odd.
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.