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
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
Can’t slip a Saddam past us that easily!
Interesting. feddit.org also saw a sudden peak in new users registering in the same time period.
Glad, I am not the only one seeing Saddam Hussain everywhere
… what does it mean‽‽‽‽
Give it the body of Elon Musk and it fits fertectly.
Is this the solution of the post?
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
Great, now I won’t be able to unsee that ever again!
I’m sorry. I couldn’t help myself.
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
I came here to say this
This one still has the head!
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!
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 ;)
I see Saddam Hussein.
Also, we’re doing our part. They’re still halfway from their nodest goal though.
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.
Oh yea I started donating all right…to PieFed (I don’t even have a PF account), .world and .cafe.
I won’t be giving a penny to them until I see some major changes in regards to .ml as so many people called for on every other version of the donation thread that wasn’t .ml
You can still donate to Lemmy without supporting ML! From https://threadiverse.link/lemmy.ml/post/29579005:
Update: For those of you who want to support Lemmy development without financing the hosting of lemmy.ml, know that the hosting is paid exclusively through OpenCollective. You can see the payment details at this link. This means donations through all other platforms (Liberapay, Ko-fi, Patreon, Crypto) are exclusively for Lemmy development, and not a single cent goes to lemmy.ml hosting.
Edit: Liberapay is the preferable donation option, as it has very low fees and is also open source.
This is a bold lie that Nutomic keeps pushing. These donations go directly to Nutomic and Dessalines. The servers are not the problem. The problem is the admins who happen to be the devs.
As was brought up in those threads, but it’s simply not good enough, it’s just paying for .ml with extra steps (e.g. through their pay/salary rather than directly funding hosting costs)
Do they have a link where your money doesn’t go towards moderation costs?
No. Because they’re scammers. They want you to pay them so they can ban people for being against genocide all day.
We get it, you hate Lemmy as a platform. You try so hard to make it less appealing by splitting discussions on posts by reposting stuff needlessly. Really makes Lemmy look even more unoriginal and boring seeing the same posts 3 times in different places all the time. Then you spearhead some movement to try to get people to not donate to Lemmy development at all, making it harder for these people who are trying to make Lemmy their life’s work to be able to even survive. It’s actually gross.
Weird how if you are an asshole to your users it makes them into enemies.
I joined Lemmy with every intention to contribute and make a significant donation as well. But after getting banned and dogpiled for daring to say things like “Russia shot down a civilian airplane” and “the ML theory you are referencing does say what you claim it says,” I’m also here to say the fediverse will be better without cringe keyboard warriors like Dessalines and transphobes like Nutomic being involved with it. There are other projects to support.
We get it, you hate Lemmy as a platform.
I have been so very clear on this being about .ml and the admins in charge of it that it’s obvious you’re just posting a straw man.
You try so hard to make it less appealing by splitting discussions on posts by reposting stuff needlessly.
Lol, no: https://lemmy.world/comment/16087942
Then you spearhead some movement to try to get people to not donate to Lemmy development at all, making it harder for these people who are trying to make Lemmy their life’s work to be able to even survive.
Because they use the .ml instance and it’s influence as being associated as the “Official Dev Instance” to push their Tankie “ideology”, to include spreading dangerous misinformation and propaganda
They could solve it almost overnight by turning over .ml to a new as fair and unbiased as possible admin team. As was also brought up in those donations threads. In fact to paraphrase another user: “Devs should do dev work and not mod work and admins/mods should do mod work and not dev work”.
Lol to accuse you of not liking Lemmy as a platform. It doesn’t get much more strawman. Lol you’re one of the most frequent posters I see on Lemmy in general 😝
“They’re active on here all the time because they hate being here”
I have been so very clear on this being about .ml and the admins in charge of it that it’s obvious you’re just posting a straw man.
Your intentions can be whatever. You are actively harming Lemmy and the fediverse as a whole.
Because they use the .ml instance and it’s influence as being associated as the “Official Dev Instance”
Really because every turn I see it seems like they push people away from joining .ml…
fair and unbiased as possible
What does this even mean?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Awesome.
I have a monthly contribution set up. Subscribing is way better than dealing with ads.
You shouldn’t pay those tankies imo
Yea we heard , so please fuck off now? Reddit is a perfect utopia for you.
You fit in better there. Heck I bet you would really dig Instagram.
Not really i fit perfectly at a communist Foss project. You are the one with the issue so why dont you leave?
