fair point - noone on reddit buys awards so that they can contribute to reddit financially - people do that to draw more attention to the kind of content they like. So I thought you could use that to get more money to people who can make use of it. So to the donors it wouldn't primarily be a donation. if lemmy.world is doing well for now - that's great for them, but there are many groups who can make really use it.
well liberapay pretty much exists to give people a way to contribute to the FOSS they support. What I was thinking of is not much more than a way to do just that, just in a way that is more engaging than the typical donation system
certainly not everything is about money. but servers do cost money, and if we want to keep lemmy servers independent they'll need some source of income.
out of these words I prefer vanguardists. bolsheviks feels weird because that term is used a lot by nazis, authoritarians doesn't seem entirely accurate to me as marxists understand the authority of a revolutionary state as a necessary means to enable the transition to communism. I disagree with that, but don't think it is the same as authoritarianism.
to be fair we all are like that to some extend. switching to lemmy is more convenient to us than to many others as we are more tech-savy. Similarly, anarchists who have a garden and the necessary know-how to cultivate their own plants might judge others for buying veggies from the supermarket. They'd have a point but it wouldn't be entirely fair
afaik the main reason for th domain is that Mali domains (.ml) have been free to get for some time. it neatly coincides with their marxist-leninist ideology so I guess that's why they went for that domain
I think it is worth pointing out that this entire rivaly (if you can call it that) between lemmy and raddle is wayyy older than the reddit migration. Back them these spaces consisted mostly of leftists and their differences seem much more insignificant now that so many "normies" join the plattform. And I guess this whole federation thing seemed a lot less compelling when there were only of handful active communities about a pretty limited set of topics
I don't quite agree. Likewise there would be no point in torning down the infrastructure developed by fascists/colonizers - it would make a lot more sense to repurpose it for the general good.
makes sense. I'm obviously not a fan of tankies, but is there a more neutral term for them? I used "ml", but I assume not all marxist-leninists are also tankies
sounds interesting, but I can't quite follow haha
I think the way the fediverse works now is a good balance between individual freedom and feasibility in terms of moderation/hosting
fair point - noone on reddit buys awards so that they can contribute to reddit financially - people do that to draw more attention to the kind of content they like. So I thought you could use that to get more money to people who can make use of it. So to the donors it wouldn't primarily be a donation. if lemmy.world is doing well for now - that's great for them, but there are many groups who can make really use it.