Update from Lemmy after the Reddit blackout (From the Lemmy Developer)

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Good read, gives me a lot of hope for this project.

I look forward to an exciting future with all of you.

(Also- hopefully this wasn't posted already)

https://join-lemmy.org/news/2023-06-17_-_Update_from_Lemmy_after_the_Reddit_blackout

This was written by the Lemmy devs.

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Sure, but as I said, I don't see any of this as relevant as long as it doesn't affect the platform.

https://raddle.me/f/lobby/159606/-/comment/294792

You leave reddit because the ceo introduces shitty pricing but you don't mind the main devs being literal fascists?

The project is open source and anyone can create instances, that's why its irrelevant.

The way it works in practice is that the largest instances are where most people go. What is stopping those devs from imposing their views on the community, e.g. by censoring?

Nice thing is, the devs have no power about instances they don't run.

They just write the code for them, and since it's open source, we could see any sketchy code and just fork it away

If that happens word gets out and people switch and currently the instances ran by the OG tankies are actively trying to dissuade people from joining.

Hahahaha fuck. I love it when tankies are a self-solving problem.

Reddit is in hot water because of its actions as they affect various user groups, not because the CEO has a political view that's undesirable.

Of course political protests could be done, but that's not what happened here, and you know this.

Reddit's admins are taking decisions based on their worldviews and objectives that affect the content of Reddit, i.e. what we can talk about, what we can do, what tools we can use, what information we can access...

As of my current knowledge, the worldviews of Lemmy's devs (that I certainly don't share) don't affect content on instances that they do not administrate or moderate. Even if they were building and shaping instances around hatespeech (which I don't know they do), I'd simply block them and let the police and justice act on the potential crimes or offence they may do.

The beauty of federated networks is you can avoid the platforms with these kinds of people altogether. I typically avoid lemmy.ml altogether unless I don't have a choice and even then it's pretty easily to find alternatives.

Girl calm down, please just take a step back. Maybe read up on communism or communists / the far left before blaring off takes like this. I'm not an ML and not a fan of them as an anarchist, but this is suchhhhh an overreaction to what they actually said.

Additionally if you don't like the dev team, then fork it. Or volunteer to be on the core team. Submit some PRs. Start your own alternative. One of the cool things about having anticapitalists develop software is that it is open and you can do that. It actively does the opposite of what capitalism wants us to do. I think just that fact alone should make you pause and maybe reassess the language you're using (Hitler and other fascists rose to power actively aided and funded by capitalists because it helped retain their power).