Exactly. It is a huge, authoritarian, corporate platform that can absolutely ruin the fedi if it ever turns against us (think ads, bad moderation, nudging campaigns, etc).

Its not at all as black and white as threads is but it is still a huge problem.

The question isnt easy to answer as you dont need an instance to participate. It is far better if you join an instance and spare yourself the hassle of admin and/or mod work. If you absoluteky want to have a community which you can build and mod, you can do that on any instance. If you think you can provide something that nobody else can then you could open an instance. But in that case i suggest finding people to do this with because it is a large project.

And only after all those considerations, you should think of the tech aspect. You can get a vps for 10 bucks a month and host lemmy on it, probably amongst other things. But i would probably not do it if youre not really curious about server hosting stuff. Managed hosting (which is the offer you mentioned) is another idea but it isnt worth it imo. Rarely will someone really have the need to use that and then the company provoding needs to make money so you will lose.

Maybe i’m missing something but lemmy absolutely shows mastodon posts. It depends on if someone uses the handle of the group or not.

The capitalfascists are trying everyrhing they can to destabilize any attempt at anything free. I’m not saying piefed is that but the amount of recent tries to cancel the lemmy devs and now lemmy itself does reek like capfash.

@[email protected] do you guys know that a couple of these attempts are being made? Please update us if more stuff like this pops up.

Thanks for your opinion. I think a lot of people are very happy with the size and growth of lemmy right now.

So you’re one of those bad faith actors who conveniently overhear all the good points and focus on something you might be able to at least call into question.

You definitely get a ban from my instance for this. What a disgusting stance.

We’re getting nowhere here. You’re in the “i own your ass” mindset of capitalism. Thats not a base for discussion. They likely also ate and took a shit on time paid for by people. The whole idea of only paying for a specific task is so fucking dystopian.

Just take a second to imagine yourself in their shoes. Waking up, not taking a shower (slightly joking but who cares), either eating something or smoking some weed or both, sitting down in front of a computer, writing code, working on bugs, writing documentation, eating, going outside (hopefully), going to sleep.

As someone who does this shit for a living, you cant clearly divide tasks in non manual jobs and even then it is micromanagement which will likely make a lot of workers sick.

I dont know where you have the idea from. Its not real. Of course they might fix a bug in their instance, answer a modmail. Moderating a lemmy instance isnt that crazy of a deal. Of course its labour but the idea to call them scammers because they moderated their instance feels like you might wanna smoke less, more or something else (metaphor for get your head straight).

This judgemental shit just isnt healthy in this place and people hating on other people doing shit for the community isnt as cool as edgy as you think.

Of course they can. This still doesnt give you the right to be disrespectful. Also, they have questionable beliefs, big fucking deal!

That joke was actually pretty funny. But what were those other posts mate? Show a little respect to the people giving you the opportunity to post here at all.

Same here. I dont have a lot atm but I try to give what I can and also help out with work.

They posted asking for people to stand up for them. Dirty communists like myself (okay, and others) stood up and pushed that message everywhere we could. Because you have to want freedom and democracy. It does not come for free.

Hahaha look at your comment history. Dont believe this troll clown. Not one comment with actual content, just rants and negativity.

Fully agree. Make issue, open bug bounty if you wish. Ask your community for donations or plain make a paid service so you can handle finances. Thats it. Of course things can always improve but that also requires that instances drive donations to the devs and are active in decisionmaking.

Then kindly use something else.

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.

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