I’ve not heard of it before but a problematic lemmy user who got banned multiple times for sinophobia and other bigotry/harassment has became a mod of a Political Compass Memes sub on there (they haven’t it’s a lemmy thing, my bad) and the posts on that sub are already rolling out the sinophobia.
This isn’t meant to be a brigade against one user or platform, it’s more I’m shocked that sub has being allowed given the abject shit takes and bigotry that meme sub reddit generates and I find that concern tracks when past problematic users are being made mods for it.
Or is that just another lemmy instance? Ngl it all gets a bit confusing for me trapped here on lemmygrad.
Edit: I think it’s a lemmy.perthchat sub not a beehaw sub, apologies for any confusion. Still PCM is a disgrace regardless and the fact there’s one connected to lemmy now is a bit 🤮
Reading on these other communities I don’t think I know how this place works.
Glad I got Lemmygrad though
If you’re unsure about how federation works, there’s a summary here
Makes more sense now, thanks. How is this all funded?
In addition to what others have said, the main two devs (there are others!) have mentioned that they are paid to work on it IIRC. That’s from donations and sponsors, listed in the link below.
Here is the join-lemmy.org page for a more general overview of what Lemmy is. Information on who has donated is over here.
Thanks to our sponsor Dollar Shave Club
I think right now, donations. I could be wrong though
It’s open-source software, so it’s developed by the community (anyone who wants to add code to it can do so), and any funding would be from donations.
https://lemmygrad.ml/post/14340
(This is from 2 years ago, might be different now)
Same and same lol