I think it’s already widely known that the developers of the Lemmy software hold questionable/extreme ideas, which they don’t hide. I think it is not good to give them money or extra publicity, since that could drive away new users when they find out. Also money better not go into extremist hands.
I think there should instead be a donation link to help the instance maintainers and moderators.
Ideally however, it would be best if instance owners joined hands and forked Lemmy under a totally new branding and used that on their servers instead, in order to completely disassociate from Lemmy the software and its developers.
EDIT: You all have good points. On second thought, maybe you’re right: it would not be decent to not donate them for their work. However I’m still not happy that genocide-deniers get this publicity :(
EDIT2: Just so that you don’t think I’m making this up, please see this well-researched list of sources from the user spirit.
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.
You have a very good point. It’s the result of their work. But on the other hand genocide denial by a person is serious enough for many people to not want to contribute to them.
Maybe I should judt use kbin or something else and stop complaining.
Exactly what I have done. Moved to kbin and not subbing anything from lemmy.ml