This article is dogshit. Its clearly written to make it sound like theyre completely getting rid of it to get people pissed off at GNOME and Mozilla. The GNOME merge request has “by default” in the title, so its pretty damn obvious they’re not getting rid of it completely.
But not required. If I do not morally support the developer I can instead choose to financially support individual instances, or other projects like Piefed or mbin.
My point here is that comparing this situation to using Lemmy is a bad comparison. Supporting Framework is pretty much exclusively via financial support, the same is not true for Lemmy.
Using Lemmy isn’t giving that tankie money.
Ngl I did not think about that at all. There are loads of sites with social in the name, like the flagship mastodon instance.
It seems kinda silly to stop using social as in the name for social websites because of them.