If you don’t want to be pestered with the notice box to donate to the tankie dev of Lemmy, you can plop this into uBlock: Origin to block the box from appearing.
lemmy.dbzer0.com
I noticed some comments saying “You can’t pirate free software”. I would take that as a challenge, so here’s how to pirate Lemmy.
Firstly, “free” software is extremely rare. Lemmy isn’t free, its governed by the AGPLv3. Per the AGPLv3, if you pull the author attribution/licensing text, say “I made this” , and start distributing it out, you’ve committed copyright infringement and illegally distributed it (piracy). So, that means we CAN pirate Lemmy:
- Fork the existing Lemmy repo into our own project
- Remove all reference to the original authors and licensing and put your own name on it.
- Change the name to something else and start sharing it out.
- Optionally charge money for it
NOTE: Never let someone tell you that you can’t do something.
you mad lad lol
Would I not pay my roofer if they were a Rump supporter?
They did a good job on my roof. What do their political opinions matter?If I was XRaying your broken arm, would you refuse, because I support a tankie for writing apolitical software I like to use?
are you really in the piracy comm, telling people they should pay for free software by using healthcare, which should also be free, as an example?
There is piracy and then there is talking others out of donating
Ah, well I thought of that and specifically left in the option of just not doing this when I had chatGPT write it out for me, for those people who do want to donate to tankies.
My perception is you are trying to talk people out of donating to maintain lemmy, while using it yourself?
What does this even have to do with piracy ???
I don’t think I particularly mind what your perception is, so I’m just not going to engage you any further on the topic.
Disengage.
Using free software isn’t piracy to begin with. This post is actually in the wrong community.
You see how I didn’t even address your point, and instead brought up a different and only tangentially related argument? Makes me seem like a dick doesn’t it.
Not interested in arguing with you over it.
Disengage.
If you dislike the tankie dev of lemmy why are you using their software? Use X, a fascist CEO seems more like your style.
"Fascist," you declare, like a spell you overheard— empty in your mouth.Cute, but you did the same with “tankie”.
It is a decentralized open source communication protocol offered for the public’s use, which means people can modify their instances and generally do, say, or think anything they want in regards to the original founders of the project.
Yeah it’s FLOSS and you can do whatever you want with it - no doubt due to the leftist beliefs of the authors.
Regarding doing saying and thinking whatever one wants - yeah I didn’t censor anyone, I’m not an unhinged mod with an appetite to ban anyone who disagrees with me - and there’s no way to stop someone from thinking whatever they want anyway wtf are we even talking about?
I just thought it’s in bad taste to use someone’s FLOSS software whilst calling them slurs. Alternatives exist which would be more aligned ideologically with OP’s beliefs, that’s all.
I just thought it’s in bad taste to use someone’s FLOSS software whilst calling them slurs.
You are decidedly not a protected class for being a tankie, homie.
that’s not a slur, and it’s craven of you to compare being disliked for your beliefs and behavior with being discriminated against for your skin color….
tankies are always pretending like everyone else is a racist liberal yet you keep trying to manipulate racism for sympathy.
tankie isn’t a race, religion, class or culture.
tankie is a descriptive term.
don’t like it? don’t advocate for authoritarian regimes that run over people’s skulls with tanksI don’t know if I’d really call Tankie a slur just because “tankies” don’t use the term. That’s like saying Thatcherite, carpet bagger, TERF or brownshirt are slurs. You may not identify with the term but we have a long way to go before its a slur.
