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On any of the donation threads where it came up and he replied to it, the most he ever did was some half hearted corporate PR "apology" (ironic)
Yeah, lets start donating to piefed.
Meh, maybe some non-tankie (and also non-right-wing) programmer can step up and we start working on a fork and we'll donate? Maybe?
Anyone? 👀
db0 trying not to be based challenge:
Impossible.
I mean they still left the begging thread up with the "separate the art from the artist" message, and let Nutomic intentionally mislead users about "developer salaries" not going to support .ml. If they really wanted to be based they would have banned Nutomic for being a greedy little pig boy and told people to donate to Piefed.
I mean they still left the begging thread up
That was me [that crossposted; just thought mander had a good idea :)] 😅 Sorry.
with the "separate the art from the artist" message
That's db0's fault to bear :p He actually walked it back later, seeing how nutomic refused to back down his beliefs.
If they really wanted to be based they would have banned Nutomic for being a greedy little pig boy and told people to donate to Piefed.
Good idea--I'd love to do that. I've been swaying all admins on the team to (in a year or two??) maybe switch to piefed. I've also helped a bit with piefed development directly; even helping with some migration tool rimu/AP are interested in. Hopefully we can in the future :D
Honestly, seeing how much of a shitshow that thread was; i think i'm going to delete it. I'll wait for it to cool down in some days, and make a fundraiser post for rimu.
Unless Piefed gets a database import ability to port Existing Lemmy databases to that I don't think Switching to it would be such a great idea. It would mean starting our instance from scratch and losing everything we have content, user registrations, communities. If Sublinks hadn't stalled it could be a promising alternative, and maybe will be in the future, since it's built around that whole concept of database and API compatibility.
Do you do this for every product in the supermarket
Bro where you been? Nestle is the classic example, tesla is a newer one, proton too, chic fil a, etc.
Yeah. People do also boycott stuff. What the fuck does he mean lmao.
ProtonMail was a huge disappointment. I was a paying customer.
But I'm happy so far with Tuta.
This is really shitty but it doesn't surprise me at all. He's trying to make a shift because he doesn't want to face repercussions of being labeled transphobic, possibly being widely banned and ostracized.
It's very different when someone actually realizes they were wrong and want to change and be better. Nutomic isn't doing that here, he just wants people to give donations and to avoid fallout from him letting his opinions slip publicly.
Bro is literally panicking that he might have to get a real job.