Hexbear.net poster who wanted in on the action
lemmy.world is run by the same people as mastodon.world and it is already donation funded. They post financial updates on their blog: https://blog.mastodon.world/
they have been funded by grants from NLnet (I think from EU funds?) but I think are transitioning to donation-based.
No matter how politely stated your disagreement is, if it boils down to “I don’t think I should have to respect trans people’s identity”/“I don’t think trans people should have rights” then it’s transphobic and I’m 1000% fine with that being bannable
I’ve downvoted this post from lemmygrad. Doesn’t appear to be federating so far
edit: yeah it shows up on lemmy.ml but is ignored by hexbear. There may have been a change in the logic with 0.19.4/5