Yeah, not a big fan of tankies and personally would have never considered donating. Pretty sure I blocked that popup with ublock.
That was until I saw your self-righteous little crusade ...
So thanks for supporting lemmy!
this post was submitted on 23 Dec 2025
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This is not a lemmy.world issue. All Lemmy instances do this, assuming they're running up-to-date builds. The devs added it to the Lemmy code base earlier this year:
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/5318
If you don't like it, then move to a PieFed or mbin instance. Then you have access to all the same content without any connection to dessalines or nutomic.
OP is quite bad at putting their thoughts into words, but OP switching to piefed does not solve the problem. the problem is not that OP sees it, but that everybody else sees it too, and it incentivizes donating to people with bad intentions
The lemmy.world admins also run a PieFed instance, if you specifically want the lemmy.world admin team but want to use PieFed instead of Lemmy.
They are indeed already on a Piefed instance. Feddit Online is such.
The Lemmy instance that I host also has this pop up because it's built into Lemmy. Am I a bad guy too?
-posted from PieFed :-)
Yep this ran last year as well if I remember correctly.
See the body of the post, when asked about this Serinus said:
So they’ve provided you a solution to your problem, but you don’t want to use it to solve your problem, and you’re mad at them because you’re still using the thing you don’t want to use.
Got it.
That's not an "oops, sorry, out of our control" instead that's a glowing review. Do you share the same opinion as them?
Are you sure you want to die on this hill? It's a silly pop up. Don't use Lemmy -- done.
How is that comment you linked to "the admins intentionally supporting the tankie views of the developers"?
Maybe OP misunderstood the "focus on human connections" part.
Supporting those specific developers is supporting their Tankie views, their transphobic views, and their pro-war views. They could have said "sorry yeah we didn't mean to promote them" but instead they defended promoting them and basically thanked them.
Uhm yeah no.
That popup is built into Lemmy. It pops up about every year or so. And iirc you should also be able to disable it permanently.
edit: nope, you can't disable it. they removed the option
Somehow Lemmy isn't as defederated as i thought?
absolutely ML should be defederated for misinformation and admin abuse
supporting the lemmy project is totally fine
"I wouldn't support ML but I'm fine with supporting ML" you're not slick.