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!

  • barsoap@lemm.ee
    1·
    8 hours ago

    As for East Germany, would you mind stating how your thesis about the government taking an active role

    If you read what I wrote, then you would know that I actually stated: a) the government didn’t do that and b) it prevented civil society from doing so.

    (titles of your links)

    West German Government Was Full of Ex-Nazis After World War II

    So in the east.

    The Purge of Lawyers after the Breakdown of the East German Communist Regime

    …lawyers. Gregor Gysi is a lawyer, btw.

    All in all you really don’t seem to be particularly knowledgeable about German history. You also don’t seem to be willing to investigate what I gave you, instead falling into a partisan “But SED good therefore they are right” (unironically) and “everything is the fault of the west”. Very predictable, very sad.

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
      1·
      8 hours ago

      The quantity and quality with respect to how de-Nazification was handled in the West vs the East was entirely different, and you are erasing that because the East still had some Nazis, while the West was infested with them. This is affirmed by the links I sent, to which you merely read the titles. The lawyer piece, for example, talks about the entire process of de-Nazification with an emphasis on how the Nazi lawyers were treated.

      I could do the same low-effort character assassination you levied against me, but if you’re not even going to read the abstracts or intros of the articles I link, this conversation was never going to go anywhere in the first place.