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!

  • AntiOutsideAktion [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    123·
    21 days ago

    Now let’s be clear. I was talking death counts. And I do believe that the Nazis were worse. I saw Auschwitz and Birkenau camps and those are sights that I will never forget. I get chills just remembering it. So please do be cautions who you call holocaust denier.

    You’re repeating nazi propaganda deliberately created to be holocaust denial so honestly fuck how you feel about yourself. If someone has a robust and well supported reason to call you a holocaust denier why the fuck would you respond with a hollow ‘how dare you’

    Do self crit

    • illi@lemm.eeEnglish
      24·
      20 days ago

      You will note I never denied nazi crimes in any of my comments. I just don’t deny communist crimes either.

      • AntiOutsideAktion [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        71·
        20 days ago

        Fucking moron. YoU WiLl nOtE I didn’t accuse you of denying nazi crimes. I accused you of repeating nazi propaganda and committing blood libel.

        You’re not denying nazi crimes. You’re minimizing and justifying them by lying about their enemies. The next step of the logic you’re parroting is that their cause was correct.