Oh I’m sure they would pull contracts. The government has contracts in probably every major cloud provider in the States and wouldn’t mind moving to any other.

Plus where do you draw the line if you’re a cloud provider? Can you support any military IT? Or just ones related to Israel? If you don’t provide cloud support to the US and to Israel, are you supporting Palestine? You basically just can’t win

I don’t really think Microsoft is at a fault though. If the US supports it, they are not taking a side as much as they are supporting the military

If it didn’t get approved, I can understand why the company would take that stance.

But I do think they should have just approved the event

Why wouldn’t it all best just considered salt water then?

I think it’s because people think giving pure cash is thoughtless and basic. If you give a gift card for that persons favorite restaurant, then it feels more personable.

Obviously having cash is better for flexibility but people don’t care sometimes

Ya I definitely don’t wanna take away from what Lemmy has accomplished

It’s definitely the best alternative to Reddit that I have seen. But the federation does add another way of complexity that I wasn’t used to coming from Reddit. Whenever I join a new community now, they may be across different federations and it seems like the popularity of these communities almost compete with each other, which detracts from having a big user-based community to ask questions to

Do you guys feel like the federation hurts Lemmy?

Like I see its benefits, but for an average user, the feel of Lemmy as an app is less intuitive than reddit