The potential monetization being the donations to give them a living wage? What exactly is the criticism about, that they shouldn’t get a living wage through donations and should rather make the platform paid or ruin it with ads?

Why do so many people get off on attacking the idea of FOSS, much of the software that is running our everyday lives is supported through FOSS (and lots of them are also being donated to so that the devs can afford to put food on their tables).

There are also many devs (on Lemmy as well) that contribute a lot without being paid, simply because they like the project, want to make it better, and want to learn by doing.

Maybe public opinion will change now that there’s white victims of the genocide too

If they haven’t done all this until now, what makes you think they’ll do it then?

The rich will get off unscathed with a blank canvas to work on, and the poor will pay the price, just like with every other market crash.

Is this suddenly a teenager platform whenever you want to infantilize the ones you disagree with?

But, you know, after the economy revives by state simping for the private banks, maybe we’ll discuss it then

This is like suggesting that emptying a round of an AK on someone that punched you is somehow “walking into a trap”

Does it make sense or is it justified?

There’s quite a difference

If you thought any measures taken for Ukraine were because of morals you’re very mistaken

Please state your sources…

Sadly most people are way too fucking dumb and uneducated to have nuanced opinions, but you can’t blame them fully when they’re so busy working all day that they can’t afford to spend time reading and learning from quality sources

Careful now, you might just shatter their simplistic view of the world

Any remote login happens via VPN.

I don’t support this, but you don’t need VPNs for remote logins. SSH exists, it’s just that VPNs are a better solution for companies among other things.

Profit maximization and personal gain over the many is where cooperation goes to die.

Some small companies can do a good job, and sometimes bigger ones too, but they’ll be crushed by other companies that exploit their employees forcing them to do the same if they want to stay in the business.

It represents your partial ownership of the company and property

The only way this can be done in a capitalist way, is by distributing exactly one company share for every employee that’s not tradeable at all, flattening the hierarchy completely, and making every decision in a direct democratic way.

I agree, but that doesn’t seem to be the case sadly…

It’s ok, americans don’t have healthcare so they can afford to wage wars all over the place

Please read history and tell me how often that happens between oppressors and the oppressed. That relationship is broken time and time again by violence, I’m sure you have a ton of examples to give out of the history of your own country as do I.

The ads are not the main problem, the main problem is how the “personal ads” are chosen by harvesting and sharing all your private data.

A tracker blocker is a more suitable solution along with the ad blocker.

Correction: trains in Greece are no longer public sector. They are all owned by Ferrovie dello stato italiane, the failure of setting up failsafes and maintenance are because it wasn’t profitable enough to do so.