Personally I contribute to/pay to support my instances and clients far more than development and I feel a bit guilty for that.
I’m just curious how everyone else who donates divvies up their contributions.
I’ve donated to development. Instances need support, but the platform won’t improve without developers.
It’s popular to shit on lemmy.ml and the tankie devs, but that’s where most of the development and beta testing happens. It’s wild that software that allows users to ignore the silliness of that instance isn’t funded because of the instance.
(It’s possible for devs to be distasteful enough that I wouldn’t use their software, but we haven’t gotten there yet with Lemmy)
“Governments should be able to kill whoever they want as long as they’re moving towards my ideological goals” is distasteful enough for me.
