Don’t know what the exact cause was/is for this big surge - but I am glad to see it. No matter what personal problems people may have with the main devs, they are doing great work on the platform.
Also of interest, since this is a good place to plug things, other threadiverse things:
And I couldn’t find a way to donate to mbin, in lieu of that:
https://docs.joinmbin.org/contributing/
EDIT: The creator of mbin gave a link in the comments: https://melroy.org/donate.html
nice, its still up there.
I really thought this was an elaborate Saddam hiding meme
That’s what he thought too.
Yeep , same … came here to post the pic but someone beat me to it lol
… what does it mean‽‽‽‽
Give it the body of Elon Musk and it fits fertectly.
Is this the solution of the post?
Great, now I won’t be able to unsee that ever again!
I’m sorry. I couldn’t help myself.
I came here to say this
This one still has the head!
What is this? I don’t get it.
Compare the shape of the graph to the shape of the graphic which represented Saddam Hussein. They’re vaguely similar.
*near perfect 8-bit representation
Glad, I am not the only one seeing Saddam Hussain everywhere
It’s just missing everything from above the shoulders.
Can’t slip a Saddam past us that easily!
Dev posted few weeks ago about donations being a little short and having lowered making it more difficult to support development. A lot of people then started to donate or increase their financial support.
Edit : for reference https://lemmy.ml/post/29579005
Ah, yes, that was right at the time where I was having peak personal stress/health issues and only did the bare minimum admin work on Lemmy and my other platforms, no wonder I missed it. Glad to see people actually responded to the call to action, though!
I hope you are doing better OP!
Thank you!
Saddam Hussein
The fact that that was my first thought is the reason I will be touching grass for the remainder of the day.
God damn it now I cant unsee it
I see Saddam Hussein.
Also, we’re doing our part. They’re still halfway from their nodest goal though.
I’m Melroy, mbin creator. You can donate via https://melroy.org/donate.html for now.
Also you didn’t link the correct project url. That is another project called mbin. This is our public site instead: https://joinmbin.org/
Whoops, corrected now. I was already surprised I had gotten a result not hosted on joinmbin.org - but just assumed maybe the docs were hosted somewhere else for some reason. Should have taken the extra minutes to check what exactly I was linking there.
You have been forgiven haha ;)
They posted asking for people to stand up for them. Dirty communists like myself (okay, and others) stood up and pushed that message everywhere we could. Because you have to want freedom and democracy. It does not come for free.
They posted asking for people to stand up for them.
Ah, that makes sense - I missed that, but have been happily giving them a bit of money for years now. I don’t have a lot to spare, but every little bit helps with crowdfunded stuff like that.
Same here. I dont have a lot atm but I try to give what I can and also help out with work.
That joke was actually pretty funny. But what were those other posts mate? Show a little respect to the people giving you the opportunity to post here at all.
We have no reason to support people who use language, and that support, to spout bigoted shit AND push their authoritarian agenda.
It’s weird how words on a public forum meant for transparency can come back to be used against you and make folks disagree, right?
No. People can do both good and bad things.
Of course they can. This still doesnt give you the right to be disrespectful. Also, they have questionable beliefs, big fucking deal!
They did bad things. They scammed people into paying moderation costs while calling it a payment for development costs. They moderated the instance on time people paid them to develop.
We’re getting nowhere here. You’re in the “i own your ass” mindset of capitalism. Thats not a base for discussion. They likely also ate and took a shit on time paid for by people. The whole idea of only paying for a specific task is so fucking dystopian.
Just take a second to imagine yourself in their shoes. Waking up, not taking a shower (slightly joking but who cares), either eating something or smoking some weed or both, sitting down in front of a computer, writing code, working on bugs, writing documentation, eating, going outside (hopefully), going to sleep.
As someone who does this shit for a living, you cant clearly divide tasks in non manual jobs and even then it is micromanagement which will likely make a lot of workers sick.
I dont know where you have the idea from. Its not real. Of course they might fix a bug in their instance, answer a modmail. Moderating a lemmy instance isnt that crazy of a deal. Of course its labour but the idea to call them scammers because they moderated their instance feels like you might wanna smoke less, more or something else (metaphor for get your head straight).
This judgemental shit just isnt healthy in this place and people hating on other people doing shit for the community isnt as cool as edgy as you think.
This reminded me that I wanted to support. Just did a yearly payment. Thanks for the amazing work guys! I can’t believe a just a few people can maintain such an amazing ecosystem. One day people will understand that, in 48 hours, we could destroy the entire gafam system and replace it with a fair alternative: the Fediverse and FLOSS.
They could probably get more people if they didn’t promote Russia’s attacks on Ukraine and advocate against trans rights.
I mean, why are you here if that’s what you believe? Lemmy is much more than .ml
I’m here exactly because ml doesn’t represent us. Hopefully those losers lose so much funding that they abandon the project and somebody else picks it up.
Even if nobody picked it up that would still be better than paying those .ml dictator-cocksuckers.
Yeah, and I’m donating so we can all be here. I’m not on ml, I don’t share most of their view, I want to support Lemmy development as a whole.
Then don’t donate to those two listed above. They run ML.
You run your mouth, that’s about it. So not donating to the Lemmy devs is how you support Lemmy? Back to reddit please.
I use Lemmy daily, the least I can do is throw a bit of cash at the Devs!
You really don’t want to do that, they’re pro-Russia and anti-trans. The main devs are typical tankie scum.
They are not. Stop spreading bullshit…
Honestly, even if it’s 2p a month, it’ll add up and ensure the longevity of the service at the heart of what we all use daily.
Came to post this. Monthly donations. Bumped it up recently.
Yeah because the genocidal tankie scum begged for contributions after a lot of us started boycotting them and lemmy ml.
Reddit don’t have those pesky communist , why not go back there?
You first.
Nah i dont have a problem here besides you. And that quite easily solved. You on the other hand …
Okay “leftist”
The day you make something useful like those “genocidal tankie scum”, I’ll contribute to you too.
Make something better that people want to use or shut up.
Lmao
Intended to do it long time ago, finally committed!
I have spent way too much time on lemmy this past two years, it is worth the money.
Interesting. feddit.org also saw a sudden peak in new users registering in the same time period.
