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.

  • setVeryLoud(true);@lemmy.ca
    0·
    10 months ago

    This is very standard in the open-source world. No matter what you may think of the developers’ personal opinions, their work is valuable.

    Also, asking for donations is not “profiting off of us(sic)”, nor is it a salary, it’s just a text prompt hoping you’ll give the devs a kickback for their contribution. You can just ignore it and go about your day.

    They likely don’t make enough to live off of from those donations.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      01·
      10 months ago

      They likely don’t make enough to live off of from those donations.

      If it took them 4 years to make a reddit clone and it still takes two people full time to where they can’t work…

      Then they’re not doing much, certainty nothing that’s irreplaceable