There are a large number of unanswered questions about the Fediverse. I don’t just mean questions that users may have, but questions for which no suitable answer exists yet. Some are extremely abstract and existential like “will the Fediverse survive the next decade?” Other questions are very concrete like, “What is the copyright status of a federated post?” or “What are the moral implications of federating content that may be harmful or recording a crime?”
I wonder, for those of you who stay up nights thinking about the Fediverse, which question is the most important to you?
Who is actually funding lemmy.ml?
China
It’s banned in china
So is TikTok… China funds lots of things that are banned there.
TikTok is not banned in china.
Excuse me, TikTok is “unavailable” in China
That’s not true either…
tiktok is completely allowed in china
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/is-tiktok-banned-in-china/
It’s owned by the same company and is the same app with a different name…
tiktok just has a different name in china…
https://liberapay.com/Lemmy/
Also a generous grant from
https://nlnet.nl/project/current.html
Also also more donors here:
https://opencollective.com/lemmy
So the lmy devs make less than minimum wage
Why is this a burning question? I see a lot of people complain about ml, but I haven’t had any issues with users or their communities; though the latter I’ve had sparing interactions with.
They advocate voting abstinence and voting third party a lot. That’s a view that has been connected with Russian propaganda ops designed to put Trump in the White House.
Same. For every 1 .ml interaction that the have, I get 9 other randos aggressively telling me how aggressive .ml is. It’s irony at its finest tbh.
In general, I find those 9 other randos more likely to tell me to fuck off.