https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5613
There’s two “full time” Lemmy developers, and one of them just added a repeating dialog box that will pop up regardless of instance asking for money to be sent to his and another lemmy.ml admin’s personal accounts as a salary.
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I might be reading this wrong, but does it not say “yearly”? It may be repeating, but if that frequency is once a year, I’m willing to live with that.
The big deal to me is it’s being added to the base code, to go out on all instances.
People will see “Lemmy developers” and assume it’s related to their instance, and not realize it’s the “salary” for two admins on one of the most problematic instances around.
It feels like other people took the free code, did well with it, and now the creators suddenly believe in capitalism and want rewarded for their labor.
If the only instance using Lemmy was lemmy.ml, most of us wouldn’t be here, but they want to profit off of us because our instances used free code.
This will not take effect for a while, most large instances take a long time to update because their releases are full of bugs and need fixed by volunteers before rolled out to larger instances.
The reason many of us came to Lemmy from Reddit is the decentralized nature, and the fact no one could really control.
If the creators are holding Lemmy back, it’s worth discussing why the larger instances don’t make a full fork independent of lemmy.ml admins
If I don’t get a silk screened Lemmy tote bag and or travel mug for my donation, I’M NOT DOING IT 😤