Except this is open source developed software. Using it doesn't actually funnel money to those people is any way similar to using something that is commercial does.
Unless you're also a direct supporter of that individual dev via buymeacoffee.com or something.
And again, it's open source. We can literally just take the code from them and start making it our own.
The devs have literally no power over instance admins. And anyone can start up a node, and be one.
That's one of the perks of open software. Unlike with corporations, where you have to take or leave the whole thing, you can actually change things in the direction you want without throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Maybe that's Kbin, maybe its a future fork of lemmy that is able to convert existing nodes.
Regardless, the boycotting for change that we are forced to resort to under capitalism, isn't relevant here.