Yes, you throw away the code and write it again.

You’re already free to support developers and instance owners financially if they’ve set up either Patreon, OpenCollective or LiberaPay 🤷

Problem is, not enough people are doing it. Case in point: https://join-lemmy.org/donate

Turns out you’re actually the owner of your home instance. I didn’t know that when I made my previous comments.

I’m guessing you’re currently paying for your instance’s upkeep out of pocket? I can’t spot any donation links on your instance. This might work for you personally, but do you really expect other, larger instances to do the same? Even donations are only rarely sustainable.

How do you expect your instance to cover its costs, then?

So how is your home instance financially sustaining itself? Surely you’re helping it, right?

XMPP didn’t die, so why would the Fediverse?

B-b-but the Fediverse told me that XMPP was embrace-extend-extinguished by Google!!?!

If you want to own your games, buy them on GOG.

Certain clauses may be unenforceable, but not the entire EULA.

So every negative news about Twitter, Instagram and literally every non-fedi social media platform is “relevant” too?

The post itself doesn’t even make an effort to connect this to potential benefits for fedi.

My problem is what others described: downvoting without actionable feedback.

This is exactly why I prefer instances that have downvotes disabled.

Nobody on Linux puts such software in kernel space

Falcon Sensor is also being distributed for RHEL and Debian, and it caused issues there too.

https://www.neowin.net/news/crowdstrike-broke-debian-and-rocky-linux-months-ago-but-no-one-noticed/

Some instances choose to disable downvotes. If you downvote a comment that originates from one of those instances, it will have no effect outside of your home instance.

There will never be enough donations to cover the cost of hosting videos.

The simple reason is that most people here already use Firefox, but not most people here are already vegan.

if (postTitle.contains(anyStreamingService)) postPiracyPropaganda();

You can use whatever license you want. You can even go ahead and write your own license from scratch.

You’d only have to worry about enforcing the license, especially when you include such unorthodox terms and conditions.

You should see what happens when someone posts news about Windows

We can cherry-pick projects too.

Lemmy barely gets enough donations to fund a single developer.

core-js, one of the largest JavaScript libraries, was cussed out for even having the audacity to ask for donations.

Donations aren’t the steady source of income you seem to be thinking they are.

You’re right, Firefox deserves a little blame for that. :-P