The creators of Lemmy are tankies and have some pretty despicable views, maybe we shouldn’t advertise giving them money.
I like the software, it feels cozy outside some communities from lemmy.ml, and I hope someone forks it eventually, but for now removing the link should be easy to do.
Relevant thread: https://mstdn.social/@feditips/106835057054633379
I’m not sure how kosher this would be, with licenses and whatever, but rather than get rid of the donate button, should we just have it refer to supporting the pawb network in general instead? https://ko-fi.com/pawbsocial
It’d be fine, all changes are allowed, it’s just that they have to be stated and the modified source code for both the client and the server has to be available, because network use counts as redistribution under the AGPL.
My concern with the license earlier was about adding a quick patch in production to get rid of the button.
Maybe with a fork it’d be nice to add a setting for the link instead of hard coding it, so if other instances want to run it they can just put theirs in.