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We're the creators of Lemmy, Ask Us Anything. Starts Monday, 7 Aug, 1500 CEST (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is an opportunity for any users, server admins, or interested third parties to ask anything they'd like to @[email protected] and I about Lemmy. This includes its development and future, as well as wider issues relevant to the social media landscape today.

Note: This will be the thread tmrw, so you can use this thread to ask and vote on questions beforehand.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Since you're very upfront with your political preferences, how much did it play a role in motivating you to create Lemmy? Was it a tech experiment first and a political project second?
Do you have some kind of core principle to not let your political preferences excessively interfere with your role as founders, main developers and moderators of Lemmy?

Thanks for your work, it's projects like that keep the ideal of the open internets alive.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The free software movement is actually inherently political. Much of modern digital infrastructure is built using tools / software that embodies collectivist ideologies. I would be very surprised if the Lemmy developers even claimed that they created Lemmy in some sort of apolitical clean room (not that it is even possible).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Any public action can be considered politics anyway and I'm not asking for complete neutrality. The free software movement has freedom of the user in it's core philosophy. This is not necessarily the case of some radical left movements. So I'm hoping that the free software philosophy prevrails in the case of Lemmy's development.

[–] solarbabies 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What kind of political preferences are you referring to?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They are communists, you can find the thoughts of Dessalines here: https://github.com/dessalines/essays
Che Guevara and Mao on his profile.