Hiding the tankie donate box
If you don't want to be pestered with the notice box to donate to the tankie dev of Lemmy, you can plop this into uBlock: Origin to block the box from appearing.
lemmy.dbzer0.com##.show.fade.alert-info.alert
I noticed some comments saying "You can't pirate free software". I would take that as a challenge, so here's how to pirate Lemmy.
Firstly, "free" software is extremely rare. Lemmy isn't free, its governed by the AGPLv3. Per the AGPLv3, if you pull the author attribution/licensing text, say "I made this" , and start distributing it out, you've committed copyright infringement and illegally distributed it (piracy). So, that means we CAN pirate Lemmy:
NOTE: Never let someone tell you that you can't do something.
you mad lad lol
You, I like you.
Would I not pay my roofer if they were a Rump supporter?
They did a good job on my roof. What do their political opinions matter?
If I was XRaying your broken arm, would you refuse, because I support a tankie for writing apolitical software I like to use?
are you really in the piracy comm, telling people they should pay for free software by using healthcare, which should also be free, as an example?
Would I not pay my roofer if they were a Rump supporter?
I wouldn’t hire them to begin with.
The acceptance of medical care is not an equivalent situation to using free software in terms of ideological concerns. That's conflating a social media platform with being as necessary as medical treatment. Even the roofing situation wouldn't fit as the work is complete and they can't exactly undone that work without destroying part of your existing house now and they certainly aren't based on optional donation are they? I mean I assume you contracted to have them do that work, right? So that wouldn't be a valid comparison to make either. Is Lemmy equally as important as blood poisoning or having a home to you?
The other glaring issue you didn't consider is agent vs. artifact. In neither case is the actual person performing the service (roofer or doctor) the one being criticized for holding the tankie views. By that logic, you wouldn't be able to interact with anyone who is apathetic about an issue/belief/etc you are not. A working example of that would you you posting to a forum post by the OP who has different views. You shouldn't be interacting with him if you actually believed what you wrote.
I'm sorry I genuinely don't understand.
First you tear down my bad analogies. Ignores the point, but fine.
Then you go and make the same, or similar point I was making? I'm not sure. And think by some twist of logic maybe, think I wouldn't engage positively with someone I have disagreements with?
I read your comment three times and I still don't understand what you're trying to get across.
One of the main devs has previously admitted that a lot of that money just goes to server costs for .ml. Fuck that shit.
That is a good point. I can see how somone wouldn't want to support the instance with views they don't like.... However.
Dogfooding ones own software is an important part of the development process. So it makes sense they would use it for that.
What donation box? Something in the newer lemmy?
It's a blue box that sometimes pops up on the default interface. idk if it's added by our admins, or by the .ml admins, but either way, this is how you remove it if you see it. obviously if you're not on dbzero, change the URL appropriately.
What do this have to do with piracy?
Not worth the echo— your voice fades into the wind. I remain silent.
What this comment has to do with piracy? Sound like poetry to me
Awesome, thanks Crypt.
no problem!
If you dislike the tankie dev of lemmy why are you using their software? Use X, a fascist CEO seems more like your style.
It is a decentralized open source communication protocol offered for the public's use, which means people can modify their instances and generally do, say, or think anything they want in regards to the original founders of the project.
Yeah it's FLOSS and you can do whatever you want with it - no doubt due to the leftist beliefs of the authors.
Regarding doing saying and thinking whatever one wants - yeah I didn't censor anyone, I'm not an unhinged mod with an appetite to ban anyone who disagrees with me - and there's no way to stop someone from thinking whatever they want anyway wtf are we even talking about?
I just thought it's in bad taste to use someone's FLOSS software whilst calling them slurs. Alternatives exist which would be more aligned ideologically with OP's beliefs, that's all.