Hey folks!

I’m writing this because funding for the Lemmy project has dropped to critical levels, which could seriously impact its future development.

Thanks to the generous support of our lemm.ee community, our server infrastructure costs are covered, and we even have a few months of runway. I’m deeply grateful to everyone who has contributed - lemm.ee wouldn’t exist without your help.

However, infrastructure alone isn’t enough. Our servers run Lemmy software, and without ongoing development, the platform cannot grow or even be maintained.

Lemmy is an open-source project with many contributors, but the vast majority of development work has been carried out by a small group of core maintainers. A few maintainers work full-time on the project, relying solely on donations and occasional grants to support themselves.

I’ve seen Lemmy development up close, and the maintainers have consistently gone above and beyond what I consider the standard for small open-source teams - they are constantly writing code, mentoring contributors, and keeping everything running. Their work is essential, and without continued support, it cannot be sustained.

If you value Lemmy, please consider supporting its maintainers directly. Every bit helps.

Please check out this post for more details about how to support the maintainers: https://lemm.ee/post/63034576

Thank you for reading, I hope you have a great weekend!

  • peregrin5@lemm.eeEnglish
    367·
    1 day ago

    They’re communists transphobic, class reductionists, support Russian invasion of Ukraine, support Uyghur genocide, support N. Korean dictators, worked hard to ensure Republicans won US elections, run an instance where they act like the authoritarian dictators they love and ban everyone who disagrees with them even slightly for being “liberals” 😱

    FTFY

    • 4n41y4no5@crazypeople.online
      32·
      6 hours ago

      WorKed HarD to enSurE rePub woN

      Let me guess, they actually talked about Gaza? Funny how the libs are now mad at Palestinians for costing them the elections.

      A few days ago one of the worldists got banned for saying shit like “Palestinians deserved it”. His history was full of those sarcastic remarks about how trump was so much better for gaza

      • peregrin5@lemm.eeEnglish
        11·
        1 hour ago

        Let me guess, -proceeds to make up some bullshit nobody ever said-

        How like a tankie to decide someone else’s argument for them since you’d rather argue against a strawman than actually be concerned about the facts.

        • 4n41y4no5@crazypeople.online
          11·
          55 minutes ago

          It was u/Dead_or_alive and you can check the modlog yourself. He was banned from world@lemmy.world. He was also banned instance wide but that got cancelled.

          Beside, given how much genocide apologia is going on on world they ARE the tankies in my book.

          You know, the people who supported sending litteral tanks after the Gaza uprising just last year, as opposed to sending tanks to Hungary 60 years ago

          • peregrin5@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            25 minutes ago

            I wasn’t saying the person you mentioned doesn’t exist or got banned. I’m saying you’re putting words into my mouth I never said, pretty blatantly. Though I feel you focusing on this other dude who got banned that isn’t even a part of this conversation and Gaza which I never mentioned is just more misdirection on your part.

            • 4n41y4no5@crazypeople.online
              1·
              3 minutes ago

              Well he was saying the same thing as you though

              Sarcasm about GenoCide JoE and how the Palestinians costed them the election and how their genocider would have genocided last and how non voters are at fault for trump