this post was submitted on 06 May 2025
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A Boring Dystopia
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The big deal to me is it's being added to the base code, to go out on all instances.
People will see "Lemmy developers" and assume it's related to their instance, and not realize it's the "salary" for two admins on one of the most problematic instances around.
It feels like other people took the free code, did well with it, and now the creators suddenly believe in capitalism and want rewarded for their labor.
If the only instance using Lemmy was lemmy.ml, most of us wouldn't be here, but they want to profit off of us because our instances used free code.
This is very standard in the open-source world. No matter what you may think of the developers' personal opinions, their work is valuable.
Also, asking for donations is not "profiting off of us(sic)", nor is it a salary, it's just a text prompt hoping you'll give the devs a kickback for their contribution. You can just ignore it and go about your day.
They likely don't make enough to live off of from those donations.
If it took them 4 years to make a reddit clone and it still takes two people full time to where they can't work...
Then they're not doing much, certainty nothing that's irreplaceable
Tell me you don't know what you're talking about without telling me you don't know what you're talking about.
So you think there isn't a reason the big instances are always a couple versions behind?
You think they're all lying when they say when those two release a new version it's so full of bugs that it would break Lemmy?
You don't believe those two developers that lemmy.ml has to exist as a "test version", because the new releases are so filled with bugs they need to wait for volunteers to fix them all? (After the users identify them for the developers)
In your mind, everyone is lying about that and these two Lemmy.ml admins are actually the ones doing all the work?
That's crazy man, that's like saying Elmo Musk is personally building rockets.
You just proved my point. I said none of that.