Perhaps calling for a boycott with the exception of countering their BS as desired would be better?

Yeah, that makes sense to me. It seems maybe a little bit mean-spirited, but so does killing Ukrainians, so whatever the fuck.

But they definitely are well on their way to that on their own with all their bans, I find it hilarious that the only crosspost of the donation threads that were all praise and positivity in the comments was the original one on .ml. That’s a massive red flag if I ever saw one LMAO. All the others were, at best, … controversial lol

I hadn’t looked at them, I just checked them out. Yes they’re hilarious lol. It kind of looks like maybe the donations went down since they started asking for donations? I noticed a steady flow of “That’s a great idea! I just donated!” some of which came from accounts I had tentatively pegged as bullshit propaganda accounts… which itself suggests a fascinating theory which hadn’t occurred to me until now. Regardless of that, Nutomic said it used to be €2,000 a week ago, and now Patreon is saying $1,345. There are other platforms (including Opencollective which apparently takes out 17% as transaction fees? WTF?) but it feels to me like Patreon would be the main one and the others would not add up to enough to equal €2,000. And I thought they had stopped getting anything from NLNet? IDK, maybe I am wrong. It definitely doesn’t look like it’s spiked back upwards.

I sort of am of two minds about it. On the one hand, what the fuck, I don’t want to see anyone who is making “good thing” free software be hurting financially. At the end of the day, whatever their politics, I’m sitting here using Lemmy. But then, on the other hand, I cannot understand how they can’t see the causal connection between “muahaha I delete your comments and Russia’s the best and there’s not a single fucking thing you can do about it, peasant, because you are not an admin and I am so fuck you” and “okey dokey I all of a sudden don’t feel like giving you money anymore.”

There’s a massive difference between just having an unpopular view or one I think is wrong, and using your position of authority to demand and enforce that everyone else needs to also, and making no apology for randomly kicking them out or punishing them if they don’t want that. I mean even supporting Russia, I think would give people pause about funding you. Doing that second thing is… I mean it sort of spells out to me that he aspires to be Reddit or Facebook and just fuck his users and do whatever he wants unapologetically, because it’s his server, and he’s just not in a position to do that yet, and that’s the only reason he is not.

Maybe being faced with the clear consequences of how he has chosen to be, being forced to go out and get a job as a result, not having people just take care of him unconditionally no matter what, maturing a little, and reconsidering his strategy of treating users like morons and subjects will be the end result.

Maybe not.