Plus it’s run by Swiss Nazis.

“libertarian”

I think a safe assumption is that anyone that runs over half of their budget in ads can’t be trusted.

Shit happens, unexpected costs come up.

It’s not like there’s massive global financial instability going on…

Well.

Users don’t really know what admins are up to.

I’m 100% positive there’s state honeypot instances, and Lemmy being what it is you don’t even really need users on it to keep track of people.

If providing a completely voluntary service is too much of a personal burden, the solution is to stop doing it. No one is being exploited, all relationships on Lemmy and Mastadon are completely voluntary by design.

Personally I don’t mind the idea of Lemmy embracing a syndicalist financial model or something of that nature but you’re simply spouting a bunch of entitled nonsense.

I don’t think you understand what a volunteer service is

Leveraging connections is both very human and of variable social acceptability depending on a lot of circumstances.

What would actually make them a bad friend is not being willing to return the favor.

It only feels like if you’ve played the previous, fully loaded $500 of DLC version.

On that note, absolutely steal Stellaris and its DLC.