this post was submitted on 06 May 2025
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A Boring Dystopia

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5613

There's two "full time" Lemmy developers, and one of them just added a repeating dialog box that will pop up regardless of instance asking for money to be sent to his and another lemmy.ml admin's personal accounts as a salary.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I might be reading this wrong, but does it not say "yearly"? It may be repeating, but if that frequency is once a year, I'm willing to live with that.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Why do you feel negative about it? I like lemmy and asking for yearly donation by people that actually put hours isn't a crime in my opinion.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

OP doesn't like the devs' political opinion. I, too, hate tankies, but their work is not less valuable due to their opinion and they are allowed to seek monetary donations to help them do further work in the future.

[–] jwiggler 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Maybe a stupid question, couldn't someone just fork it and remove this?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

If I don't get a silk screened Lemmy tote bag and or travel mug for my donation, I'M NOT DOING IT 😤

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 weeks ago

This will not take effect for a while, most large instances take a long time to update because their releases are full of bugs and need fixed by volunteers before rolled out to larger instances.

The reason many of us came to Lemmy from Reddit is the decentralized nature, and the fact no one could really control.

If the creators are holding Lemmy back, it's worth discussing why the larger instances don't make a full fork independent of lemmy.ml admins