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I've donated to development. Instances need support, but the platform won't improve without developers.
It's popular to shit on lemmy.ml and the tankie devs, but that's where most of the development and beta testing happens. It's wild that software that allows users to ignore the silliness of that instance isn't funded because of the instance.
(It's possible for devs to be distasteful enough that I wouldn't use their software, but we haven't gotten there yet with Lemmy)
"Governments should be able to kill whoever they want as long as they're moving towards my ideological goals" is distasteful enough for me.
You’re right and Lemmy.ml’s reputation has contributed to my hesitation in donating to development. But I also use Mastodon pretty regularly and I haven’t contributed to its development either. I have no explanation.
I made this post hoping to get some input on how folks divvy donations up amongst the three and maybe pressure myself into doing it.
If it makes you feel better mastodon is pretty well funded for an open source software non-profit.
I'd donate a bit to all of them (your home instances, and the respective devs) because you're using resources from each. But that's just me.