Hello, sh.itjust.works community!
A few months ago we began accepting donations to help cover the hosting and equipment costs of running this instance. We have been overwhelmed by your generosity and support! It truly exceeded our expectations. Thank you so much for helping to keep this instance running.
We would like to take an opportunity today to encourage everyone to also support Lemmy software development. We would not be here without the years of work that the software devs have put into creating this tool. There are certainly some users here with strong political opinions toward the lead developers. However, at the end of the day, we are all creating and maintaining this community together.
Nutomic recently posted a request for donations. Please take a look and consider sending some support their way:
https://sh.itjust.works/post/37276606
Honestly, given most of the devs' track record in terms of things like recognizing human rights, I'm not particularly comfortable with giving them money.
One alternative for those who still want to support the Fediverse without giving money to tankies and transphobes would be donating to content creators or even commissioning work that can be shared here. Artists and those who make the content we consume deserve to be paid for their work, and esspecially if this work is Fediverse OC (or coming from a supporter of the Fediverse) it will still help maintain or expand the Fediverse. A social network is as much the content and users on it as it is the tech behind it.
Another idea: Are there other fediverse compatible lemmy alternatives?
I think Mbin and Piefed are the two active ones.
Kbin
I don't know how it's going, but a friend of mine was against Lemmy from the get go and dropped out of taking part in it, because of the people that jumped onto Lemmy to develop and how impossible it was to reason with them.
Kbin died, forked to Mbin last I knew.