Don’t know what the exact cause was/is for this big surge - but I am glad to see it. No matter what personal problems people may have with the main devs, they are doing great work on the platform.
Also of interest, since this is a good place to plug things, other threadiverse things:
And I couldn’t find a way to donate to mbin, in lieu of that:
https://docs.joinmbin.org/contributing/
EDIT: The creator of mbin gave a link in the comments: https://melroy.org/donate.html
Saddam Hussein
The fact that that was my first thought is the reason I will be touching grass for the remainder of the day.
God damn it now I cant unsee it
I really thought this was an elaborate Saddam hiding meme
That’s what he thought too.
I came here to say this
… what does it mean‽‽‽‽
Glad, I am not the only one seeing Saddam Hussain everywhere
Great, now I won’t be able to unsee that ever again!
I’m sorry. I couldn’t help myself.
What is this? I don’t get it.
Compare the shape of the graph to the shape of the graphic which represented Saddam Hussein. They’re vaguely similar.
Dev posted few weeks ago about donations being a little short and having lowered making it more difficult to support development. A lot of people then started to donate or increase their financial support.
Edit : for reference https://lemmy.ml/post/29579005
Ah, yes, that was right at the time where I was having peak personal stress/health issues and only did the bare minimum admin work on Lemmy and my other platforms, no wonder I missed it. Glad to see people actually responded to the call to action, though!
I hope you are doing better OP!
Thank you!
This reminded me that I wanted to support. Just did a yearly payment. Thanks for the amazing work guys! I can’t believe a just a few people can maintain such an amazing ecosystem. One day people will understand that, in 48 hours, we could destroy the entire gafam system and replace it with a fair alternative: the Fediverse and FLOSS.
I’m Melroy, mbin creator. You can donate via https://melroy.org/donate.html for now.
Can’t slip a Saddam past us that easily!
I see Saddam Hussein.
Also, we’re doing our part. They’re still halfway from their nodest goal though.
Gross, their pathetic spam worked
Ummm if you don’t think this is good news you’re definitely on the wrong platform.
Lemmy devs are awesome, Lemmy is great, and I’m happy to contribute a small donation.Lemmy devs are awesome
Lol, absolutely not
Lemmy is great
That I can actually agree on
Lol, absolutely not
care to elaborate?
Nutomic himself has quite a history with real shitty takes and horrible stances. Including transphobia Etc.
Then there is said flagship instance. It’s run as a leninist Vanguard fiefdom and Echo chamber. Not a development hub. Its lemmy.ml and not lemmy.org for a reason. Much of the most egregious moderation not being done by moderators but administrators. All directly under and at nutomic’s discression. Which people are well within their right to object to. Especially being told their donations must go towards enabling it.
There are a ton of devs out there with shitty politics. But it’s most of them are smart/mature enough to keep them separate.
So this has nothing to do with reality, you just don’t like the they don’t share your opinions.
Your projecting. I literally said in the donation thread that I don’t care if they run their own political server in their own free time with their own resources. It doesn’t matter whether or not I agree with it. What matters is that they want to tell us that we must contribute to their hobby and political crusade. They can make all the poor life choices they want. They just can’t include me or anyone else in it.
Yeah because the genocidal tankie scum begged for contributions after a lot of us started boycotting them and lemmy ml.
The day you make something useful like those “genocidal tankie scum”, I’ll contribute to you too.
Make something better that people want to use or shut up.
Lmao
Reddit don’t have those pesky communist , why not go back there?
You first.
Awesome.
I have a monthly contribution set up. Subscribing is way better than dealing with ads.
