6d ago

Support Lemmy development ads?

Anyone else getting these donation ads? Was it just shoved onto an update by the Lemmy devs, or is this coming from the instance admins? It doesn't seem to show on clean browser sessions to lemmy.ca

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This is a built-in ad by the devs.
Personally I'm not a fan of their beliefs and stances hence why I am publicly supporting and advocating for the development of Piefed.
- I am usually very ad-aversant because i don’t consent to being randomly pushed to feeling like i need a product.
  But this interests me, therefore I’m consent. Can you advertise piefed in a way that makes me want to change from lemmy?
  
  Can you advertise piefed in a way that makes me want to change from lemmy
  It's completely interoperable with Lemmy (hence you seeing the comment you just replied to), but it's not developed by tankies, it has better mod tools, better migration in the case a community or instance goes down, and it seems to be being developed at a more rapid pace.
Can't say I have any issue with open source devs putting a request for donations inside the very apps they make tbh. Seems like a reasonable thing to do personally.
- I don't mind a request for support in principle, and I regularly donate to other similar projects.
  It's the implementation that will ultimately make the request succeed or fail. As in how often is it shown and in what manner.
  
  This, that's sort of why I am asking.
  There should be conditional and optional consent given to the host to decide whether to allow it or not to show up. They may also be interested in placing their own donation petitions using the same functionality.
- This. As long as it's non intrusive, and can be disabled/customised on the instance. Many instances would like a way to have funding support from their communities, and I think it's good will to allow the developers to have some.
It's built into lemmy, you'll see it once per year (tracked on your user row in the db)
About a month before lemm.ee went offline there was a huge drama about the devs asking various instance admins to advertise their need for donations. Wild that they are already doing this again
- "Our funds" Their server. As always ML is a parasite of the proletariat.
  I don't have to agree with a developer's politics to use their software or even support it. as long as it doesn't go towards self-destructive or otherwise bad behavior. When Desalines and Nutomic demanded that we must accept our donations, go towards that. They childishly cut themselves off from a large number of possible donations.
  If they want to run such advertisements on their own Instance, that's their own prerogative and more power to them. If they are pushing this on the other people's instances, especially without them opting in. That's so on brand, on many fronts for ML. That it is hilarious.
adblocker will fix it

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