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[–] [email protected] 86 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is what did it for me. After 3 days of finally getting the hang of Lemmy and figuring shit out I learned about the devs and their beliefs.

I don't want to support humans like that and so I was very grateful to swap to kbin and continue to deepen my learnings of the Fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is it all /several of the devs? Or that one guy who said he was a dev?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

All of the main devs

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

An apologist for communist dictatorships, who turn a blind eye to - or even justify - their human rights violations.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I didn't realise there was a word for it! Thanks!

[–] psycrow 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Bootlickers, of the communist variety. Not very nuanced people. The type of people who deny the atrocities of Soviet era countries, and some are even dumb enough to support North Korea and the current regimes of China and Russia. Some are from troll farms sponsored by those countries.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could you please clarify: are you tailking about a particular Lemmy instance, or the entire Lemmy software product?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the entire Lemmy software product

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you. That is cause for abandoning Lemmy entirely, for reasons of principle.
Although, ironicall, I don't really see it will make much difference as long as Lemmy is still widely federated.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, just feels weird using a service made by people with those views.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I find it extraordinarily difficult to identify with boycotting a product for its creator's beliefs, considering the majority of consumer products are directly produced through unethical practices. There is no ethical consumption under capitalism, after all. It's about as ridiculous as boycotting Mars because they de-sexified their M&M mascott.

It's just an untenable standard, and from what I can see there's nothing intrinsic about the way lemmy functions that can be tied to those beliefs/impacts your own ability to distance from them. I think this is just noise.

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

When I have a choice between a platform developed by tankies and one that's not.. I'm gonna choose the one that's not.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I keep trying to upvote this and keep getting an error. So consider this an upvote and agreement.