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Lemmy politics (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi everyone. Another refugee from reddit here. What's the drama with the Lemmy teams politics? I've seen a few people warn that they're not great, but the only example that I actually saw was an argumentative back-and-forth in a github issue about filter lists for slurs.

It didn't seem particularly damning to me.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

They're full on tankies - this post with admin responses from Lemmy.ml summarizes it well:

https://lemmy.ml/post/1167199

Basically it illustrates their intent to remove "orientalism," aka critique of the Chinese government from any western sources, from any community on lemmy.ml. It's not a great look, but at the end of the day with how the fediverse is set up, they can only control things hosted on lemmy.ml, not any other instances. It's one of the few reasons I signed up here instead of there. If their politics are a deal breaker for you, all you have to do is not interact on that one instance.

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

What I assume is the main contributor to the Lemmy project, Dessalines, has a Mao Zedong banner on their Lemmy profile page. So this checks out.

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