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Suggestion: Independent Lemmy instances like lemmy.world should change the donation link at the top and remove the Join Lemmy link in the footer. (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ConfusedLlama@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world
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I think it's already widely known that the developers of the Lemmy software hold questionable/extreme ideas, which they don't hide. ~~I think it is not good to give them money or extra publicity, since that could drive away new users when they find out. Also money better not go into extremist hands.~~

~~I think there should instead be a donation link to help the instance maintainers and moderators.~~

Ideally however, it would be best if instance owners joined hands and forked Lemmy under a totally new branding and used that on their servers instead, in order to completely disassociate from Lemmy the software and its developers.

EDIT: You all have good points. On second thought, maybe you're right: it would not be decent to not donate them for their work. However I'm still not happy that genocide-deniers get this publicity :(

EDIT2: Just so that you don't think I'm making this up, please see this well-researched list of sources from the user spirit.

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[โ€“] collegefurtrader@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Your government genocided plenty and you still pay your taxes.

[โ€“] ConfusedLlama@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well since this seems to be a personal attack, I think I need to respond:

  1. Your government

I don't have a government. I don't feel that I belong to any state or government. I find the idea of states absurd.

  1. Your government genocided plenty

So, if you mean the government of the state that is occupying the particular region of the planet I was born into has committed multiple genocides, then you are 100% correct. They have. And I hate them equally as I hate other governments, particularly those of China, Russia, the US (neither of which are the government directly ruling my region). Any government that kills people (which is effectively all of them) receives my wholehearted hate, so do all of those who deny the crimes committed by them, in the name of opposing another genocidal government.

  1. you still pay your taxes

Actually, it's funny that you mention this, but I won't elaborate on this one.

[โ€“] collegefurtrader@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I like the cut of your jib ๐Ÿคœ๐Ÿค›

[โ€“] randomperson@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Comparing taxes in normal countries (not every single one is run by genocidal maniacs like yours) to donations to some random dudes with extremist views. Lemmy moment.