• oktoberpaard
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    1 year ago

    I’m not sure if it matters if the software is open source and if politics do not interfere with the development of the software. Even less so because the devs don’t control the federated instances outside of their own instance. I’m sure I don’t agree with a lot of developers of software that I use on a daily basis and I actually don’t really care, as long as it’s not actively harming people or limit how I use the software.

    That being said, I don’t know much about them and I might be unaware of some really serious things that they’ve said or done that might change my mind.

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        1 year ago

        One point in favor of the devs, they do so far seem committed to keeping politicization isolated to the instances they run themselves (the two .ml domains), and have publicly claimed a few times that they are committed to supporting anyone who runs a lemmy instance regardless of their political ideologies.

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      1 year ago

      I’m not sure if it matters if the software is open source and if politics do not interfere with the development of the software.

      Generally I tend to agree.

      However - the devs are asking for donations - and the Lemmy code contains links to their donation page (https://join-lemmy.org/donate), so every Lemmy instance admin (tankie or not) is unwittingly advertising and promoting links to their donation page.

      If you’re donating, it’s probably nice to know who is receiving your money.