To me this whole thing depends on just how conflated the two things really are - if they’re going to use the donations to continue development, keep .ml running, or a mix of both. If it’s the strictly the former then I don’t see the problem if they happen to also have a hobby spreading braindead propaganda in their spare time. As far as I’m aware they haven’t previously abused their power as developers to privilege their own instance so I think we can probably trust them to use our donations to continue working on the protocol in good faith.
To me this whole thing depends on just how conflated the two things really are - if they’re going to use the donations to continue development, keep .ml running, or a mix of both. If it’s the strictly the former then I don’t see the problem if they happen to also have a hobby spreading braindead propaganda in their spare time. As far as I’m aware they haven’t previously abused their power as developers to privilege their own instance so I think we can probably trust them to use our donations to continue working on the protocol in good faith.