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[–] another_lemming 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Weren't they a tankie? I've heard about it a couple of times on Reddit before joining the fediverse but I don't have proofs myself.

[–] Madbrad200 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

They are yes. They're also admins of the oldest lemmy instances, lemmygrad.ml and lemmy.ml (ml stands for "Marxist-Leninist").

[–] deweydecibel 36 points 1 year ago

The important point is Lemmy is not beholden to them. By design.

If they fuck with something down the line, it can be forked.

Like how Emby's attempts to kill itself for profit birthed a fork that came to be known as Jellyfin, which now overshadows it.

[–] scottywh 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Agreed... I've come to the conclusion that it doesn't matter so I don't give a shit, though.

[–] astropenguin5 4 points 1 year ago

Yep, they may be tankies but they have pretty decent values besides that, and if they ever do anything really bad with it there will be many people ready and willing to fork it.

[–] Historical_General -2 points 1 year ago

Finally, somebody says the obvious.

[–] EthicalAI 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ML stands for Machine Learning and just became a popular domain for open source apps.

[–] Madbrad200 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah, but that's not why lemmygrad chose to use ml lol

[–] EthicalAI 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

But we were talking about lemmy.ml too

[–] Madbrad200 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah same thing, they were created by the same people

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As I understand it: Yes, but they allowed Lemmy to outgrow them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

That's the most important part.

[–] another_lemming 3 points 1 year ago

They do better than Soviet union, lol.