Could you give us any less context 😄

i got an email this morning

From who?

they told me not to look at the breakdown. they told me “just donate and move on.”

Did they, or are you putting words in their mouth?

these screenshots are proof that the “means of production” are heavily skewed toward one developer over another.

Lemmy isn’t a for-profit endeavor, so allusions to capitalism are misplaced. Why the funds might be distributed that way, I haven’t the faintest idea, but I can dream up just as many benign reasons for it as I can nefarious ones.

Instead of drumming up Lemmy drama based on conjecture, you could have asked the developers directly for clarification.