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Why should I care who made the software if they don't profit off my use of it? I'm not giving anyone at .ml a dime. Nor can they cash in and sell .ml the way (say) Reddit could do with its users -- at least not without risking blanket defederation and the flight of pretty much everyone using that site..
Neither Lemmy nor Kbin is a "system built for propaganda." They are systems built for community and communication. Which means they can certainly be used for propaganda, but also for many other things. I'm not going to write off an entire protocol just because a fraction of the people who use it are being jerks.
You haven't seen it, because you're using kbin, but every unaltered lemmy instance has a donate link in the top bar on every page of the site. So, yes, they do profit off it.
As I said above, I'm also on lemmy.ca. That has a donation link with funds going solely to the admins at that instance.
But even if every penny went to Chairman Mao Ze Lemmy or whatever, it wouldn't matter to me because I wouldn't donate a penny. So again, no one's profiting off my use.