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Could we please keep the instances apart from the software? It doesn't matter at all what the political views of the devs are. You don't support them if you're using Lemmy on an instance that has nothing to do with the two devs. They created something that's larger than themselves. I'm getting tired of the LEMMY DEVS ARE TANKIES outcries.
At the time I joined Lemmy, lemmy.ml and Lemmygrad were basically the only places in town.
Things have changed nowadays. But I'm still very wary of lemmy.ml, and as long as the devs are in charge of that instance I will keep warning people about it.
I trust that they won't let their political views get in the way of maintaining Lemmy itself, but it's important that people have context instead of stumbling into it themselves.
It's not like anyone can't see it and fork it if they do. It's like complaining about the political views of the architect who designed your house. You'd be able to notice the Lenin-shaped staircase landing.
Thank you, I'm tired of everyone taking this too far. I'm also hardly against authoritarian regimes of any kind, left and right, but this is a generic use open source software we're talking about, not a political party. I support the platform and I appreciate all the devs for what they do, it's really good software and it makes me happy as a programmer myself to see social media code that isn't filled with bloat and spaghetti code or malicious anti privacy features