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People are having trouble following Harris’s campaign Twitter account (newrepublic.com)
submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

And this is a site run by developers that purposely and specifically endorses Tankies, yet it's still stupid to call everyone on this site a Tankie.

The software is partially written by Tankies, but most instances aren’t run by Tankies. Since it is free & open source software under the AGPLv3, anyone can freely use it. Lemmy also uses ActivityPub, an open standard, and is fully compatible with other Fediverse software like Kbin/Mbin and Piefed. Using lemmy.ml or other instances means that you’re associated with Tankies, but using Lemmy the FOSS software doesn’t. Since Twitter is proprietary, the only option is using twitter.com which is run by a Nazi and actively supports Nazis.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

The main dev is a Tankie, so not just partially written. And you're missing the point. Even on lemmy.ml there are plenty of non-Tankies. There are reasons for people to be there other than to support the Tankie devs. In the same vein, there are plenty of reason for people to be on Twitter other than to support the Nazis.

Being this pedantic in an effort to defend broad brushing groups of people together when they don't have that much in common is, frankly, pathetic.