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People who think Lemmy is too political and refuse to join is good. (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by queue@beehaw.org to c/chat@beehaw.org

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https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/140vbey/launching_rlemmymigration_what_communities_have/jmxnzsh/?context=1

Look at here and the people who complain about it being too hard to figure out are the ones complaining about "I can't use muh slurs, this is awful."

"The left of today is very much in favour of censorship to avoid “harm.” This makes those of us in the middle very wary of signing up to any partisan media." /u/decidedlysticky23

/u/misshapensteed claims he isn't far right, but explictly only posts on PoliticalCompassMemes and TheLeftCantMeme and KotakuInAction.

If they are too stupid to figure out we know they're lying, they're too stupid to figure out lemmy.

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[–] Kaldo@beehaw.org 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am not worried about socialism, I am personally anti-capitalist too, at least in theory. I am worried about their extreme anti-NATO and seemingly pro-putin propaganda. If they kept these private I also wouldn't mind it but they literally named the tech after their ideals. Ignoring these enormous red flags seems naive.

Or maybe you're right - I'm misreading the situation and people like me who are bothered by that just shouldn't be here in the first place, wrong place for us.

In any case, don’t worry too much about it, their software is open source so if they suddenly turn evil, a fork is enough to fix it.

I am not going to get into this discussion since we can't know what will or wont happen but I am sure that maintaining a project like this requires much more than committing a bugfix to a fork.

[–] GhostMagician@beehaw.org 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yep, it's kind of like finding out something you use is made by antivaxers, flat earthers, holocaust deniers. Broad political ideology such as supporting communism isn't an issue at all, but finding out some of them hold what feels very reminiscent of alt right extremists is eyebrow raising.

[–] cavemeat@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

You're very right, it makes me a bit wary, especially with uh, familial experience with authoriarian rulers.

[–] Gaywallet@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Practically all modern technology stems from some pretty brutal history and a hell of a lot of colonialism. I think being informed is important but in most cases there's exceedingly little you can do with this information.

[–] GhostMagician@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Not using it is an option for something like social media. If this place turned out to be for instance a stormfront run one then it'd definitely be an easy pass without hesitation. At this point I'm new to this type of service so seeing how disconnected and independent from the problem players each instance is.

[–] Gaywallet@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Apologies if it was unclear, I was directing the comment at the technology itself. You always can choose to use or not use an implementation of said technology for moral reasons.