I don’t agree.

The software is opensource, noone “owns” that kind of software, many people contribute to it, anyone can fork it, modify it, and setup their own servers with it, regardless of the belief of the one who started the project.

Lemmy devs made that software opensource, that equals to donating it to the entire world, they don’t control what you do with it, in any way, it’s not that you can’t use it if you don’t agree with their ideas.

Now, telling people to avoid the “main server”/“grad whatever” is fine, because those are the servers in which those “political views” are expressed, if that bothers you better to avoid it.

But any instance of it? It doesn’t make any sense, other server are not maintained by lemmy devs, and there can be those who don’t agree at all with their political views.

Same goes for donations, you don’t donate to people, you donate to the maintenance of the software that you’re here using.

Did you use reddit? Yes?

Well know that Reddit got investments from Tencent, a Chinese company, do you know what the Chinese government thinks of human rights, don’t you? Yet we’re were there using the product.

You can’t “categorize” everything and everyone based on the views of a few, but if you’re still set on it, then you should quit lemmy altogether, it wouldn’t be coherent otherwise, in my opinion.

Though if you want to fork lemmy, you’re totally free to do it, that’s what opensource is about.

I think it is not good to give them money or extra publicity

Yes they hold views that are for many of us questionable, but at the same time they’re the ones developing the software that is running this site and I think it would be very shitty to boycott their donation link. Can we stop with this "Lemmy devs are communists and they refuse to criticize Stalin and the CCP" cancel campaign? You’re literally asking to kill Lemmy at this point.

I mean TikTok is developed literally by Chinese communists and that hasn’t stopped millions of people from using and enjoying it. Also the Lemmy developers have put a ton of effort into making this platform without demanding a dime or trying to sell out to advertisers. Also the code is open source so we can all see they aren’t doing something shady like TikTok might be.

I really hate the fact that every good thing that happens will get fucked up by politics and religion in one way or another.

First of all and I mean this as someone new to the platform and genuinely not aware: What first party sources do you have to support your claims? I honestly don’t care about regurgitated comments and stuff like that.

With that out if the way there’s an obvious problem with that idea: Wether you like whatever political or religous views they truly have or not, they are the people actively developing this platform.

Especially in this time where every instance is creaking under the load of new users and bug reports and feature request are at an all-time high, I wouldn’t try to mess with their donations. Developing this platform is a monumental task for a small team of devs and it seems like donations are already pretty scarce from their latest post.

Sure, over time contributions and PRs will increase, as more people get comfortable with the codebase. Still without the core team development may be seriously crippled for a long time.

I don’t think this is allowed with the license

We on Geddit use the /legal page for donation links 🥰

Your government genocided plenty and you still pay your taxes.

Beehaw.org removed the top link.

I have no opinion about donation or usage of lemmy, but I understand why you are unhappy.