Don’t get me wrong, it’s still an upgrade from mainstream social media like Reddit, Facebook, etc., but to think the money I meant for Lemmy as a tech is being used to maintain a tankie (“communists did bad things because of the west” or straight up denying attrocities, the ones that defend dictators just because they were communist [my issue is defending dictators, not communism], type tankies), “dems and reps are the same because dems aren’t leftist enough” type instance… Makes me doubt. If donations for each were separated I wouldn’t doubt.
I’m probably overthinking it, though. I was funding Reddit through ads, after all. It just gives me the ick to donate to people who allow the praisal of dictators on their instance.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s still an upgrade from mainstream social media like Reddit, Facebook, etc., but to think the money I meant for Lemmy as a tech is being used to maintain a tankie (“communists did bad things because of the west” or straight up denying attrocities, the ones that defend dictators just because they were communist [my issue is defending dictators, not communism], type tankies), “dems and reps are the same because dems aren’t leftist enough” type instance… Makes me doubt. If donations for each were separated I wouldn’t doubt.
I’m probably overthinking it, though. I was funding Reddit through ads, after all. It just gives me the ick to donate to people who allow the praisal of dictators on their instance.