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[–] elbarto777 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could anyone please add more context? I see some reddit user spewing some bullshit, but how do we know that's Dessalines? Genuine question...

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The irony that he started lemmy because he got a ban and then does the same shit on his own platform.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Power corrupts but as others have said, the joke is on them as it is decentralized and no longer theirs. They just helped start it.

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

I think that was intended

There's a section in the install docs about how Lemmy is designed to be anti censorship and for the people, and I think this lines up with the devs' values

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

This leads me to think that the dev has very good intentions, but is supremely blind to his biases.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Yeah. Pretty much. Except his blindness is making him justify a genocidal regime.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

yeah that's what I think as well

[–] elbarto777 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks. Ugh, I don't want to use lemmy anymore now....

[–] Eldritch 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Using their own creation against them is poetic justice though. Nothing stopping anyone from forking the backend either.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Or you could just join an instance that isn't federated with lemmy.ml

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

Is literature.cafe defederated with them?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah, just Lemmygrad and Hexbear, but if it gets too annoying I'll find one that is. I've gotten no pushbacks criticizing Marx, Lenin, or Stalin there, personally speaking.

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

lemm.ee is the opposite (doesn't defed from them) and pretty liberal-minded for anybody looking for that.

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

Block should be handled by client so any user can decide for themselves.