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
... does that change who gets the money?
No, it still goes to Dessalines and nutomic. This just clarifies that donations are split, depending on how you donate, to .ml or to ~~tankies~~ the development of Lemmy.
The reason nutomic made this announcement was because there was a vocal push back by some users who want to support Lemmy, but do not want to support the .ml instance costs.
And in proper tankie fashion, it has the shape of that intent, but it doesn't seem to mean a damn thing. It is rhetorical cover.
The mascot for this service should be a trolley.