Between Lemmy.world desperately needing new mod tools, Lemmy.ee disabling image uploads, and the two main Lemmy.ml devs working on Lemmy for less than minimum wage, I want to urge and remind everyone to please Donate!
The Lemmy devs have refused advertisements, refused collaboration with Meta, and focused all of their efforts (and then more) to support the wave of users who left Reddit. The Lemmy devs did this, as they let the work owed to their sponsor take the back seat, to give everyone here today reading this message the best experience possible.
Lemmy is already at 1% the size of Reddit, but only has 2 full time employees. Not only do they deserve more for the gruelling hours they’ve put in, but so does everyone else who’s contributed too.
I don’t really feel motivated since Lemmy is centralized now on Lemmy.world. It would have been great with a decentralized network, but sadly we didn’t get there.
The value of Lemmy for me is in its decentralized nature. Otherwise we may as well use reddit or some other centralized corp service.
With almost all users, communities and links going to Lemmy.world… Let’s just say I don’t want to pay for another centralized network.
The Lemmy software itself is decentralized though, and if the software gets better we all benefit from it.
I feel like Lemmy.world will benefit, not so much everyone else.
If donating directly to the two main Lemmy developers, then every instance benefits lol
In the way of getting better mod tools, sure.