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Thats me a year ago. Now i run pretty much 100% foss, have converted some family, run a foss it business and help activists stay safe on electronic devices. I’m not joking. Lemmy was a big part in that.

Well, facts dont need correction. We have science for facts. Hatespeech doesnt need correction, it needs deletion.

I think I know what “kind” of freedom of speech you’re talking about and its not the intended one.

Yeah. In that case I suggest truth social.

Freedom of speech is entirely different from the populist/fascist viewpoint of being allowed to say literally anything. Freedom of speech is supposed to prevent the government from silencing dissent. Dissent and discriminating against minorities is entirely different.

Thats not how moderation works. Misinformation and Disinformation, especially about oppressed minorities have no space on lemmy. It is okay to not know it and read up on it but just because you dont double down doesnt mean the initial point must stay. Additionally, feel free to host your own instance with all the “varied views” you want.

Its not that hard. If hitler (or name your villain) made and kept improving a cancer drug and nobody else is taking up the mantle, you’d probably care more about keeping people alive (or in this case off of heroinbook and reddit) than the person.

Lets be honest, 2500 per dev is a joke. They could be making three times that if they just accepted one of the offers that are thrown at them BECAUSE of lemmy and other projects showing their skills.

Barely keeping them alive is not helping their views or anything they care about besides lemmy being improved. For transparency reasons I too would prefer to have separate fundraiser for ml directed at ml users but thats a different topic.

Another important point is that reddit stans would want you to hate tankies grrr and not donate so lemmy goes away as one of the few alternatives. A alone would fund these two if I could just because fuck reddit.

Took me a moment to understand the point. But I agree, from a transparency view alone. The users of .ml should be funding .ml, not the people trying to keep lemmy as a project alive. Generally, large insrances should be funding the project, not the project those instances imo.

It absolutely is. You also inspire people to get into foss and take up the good fight. Thanks for doing this.

Absolutely agree! :) thank you very much for stating this.

PSA: Patreon takes a large cut from the donations last I checked. I call it convenience tax. Basically the same convenience but no cut you can use liberapay. They’re the cemocratic version so to speak.

But thanks for participating. I appreciate fellow dobators.

I’m putting in a dollar a week for the second year now and i plan on keeping it up. If only 1500 people did what I do, we’re completely fine.

If you host an instance, please give a dollar a week. If you spend more than 10 hrs on lemmy per week, please give a dollar. Its not that hard. Think what stuff you pay more for and spend less time o, have less fun on and learn less from.

I also think that big instances should be funneling a portion of their donations to the devs. I send more than I get, which is my choice.

Democracy requires participation.