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I love pixelfed,I don't love the developer......this isn't going to do his already huge ego Amy favours
It's helpful to be able to appreciate art without worrying too much about the artist. In history the number of genius artists who were bad people - it's basically off the scale.
This isn't art, it's a platform, it's a tool more akin to engineering than painting.
Would you have this same response for x, Facebook, or truth social?
the difference is the level of control
X and Facebook are closed source, so you can't review them and they could be hiding stuff in their code or just do things people don't like and we can't revert
they also control the servers and don't let you self host, so they can make bad admin decisions and there's nothing we can do
and they also horde the content so you can't get it from somewhere else, which means you can't just leave and use a different platform (not easily at least)
over here if you don't like the devs then you don't need to donate to them, you don't need to use their instance, or we can fork their code, or even use an alternative (like Mbin vs Lemmy)