this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
23 points (100.0% liked)

General Discussion

65 readers
2 users here now

Want something to discuss? Post it here

Follow instance rules, be decent human being...

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (18 children)

If you look at the main dev's profile pictures, they are pictures of Fidel Castro as a young man. They are one of the only new big instances that hasn't blocked lemmygrad.ml, which is basically a tankie pro-CCP pro-Russian-invasion instance, and it is rumored that they mod them with their alts, and that lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml are hosted on the same IP address. Lemmy.ml being the biggest or one of the biggest instances, and also the main developers being the leaders of that side, it makes sense to worry a bit.

But as others have said, just don't give them money, sign up elsewhere and you're good.

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

Is there any concern about the source code having some sort of monitoring capability? I'm not familiar with their codebase.

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

There's a hard coded filter that won't let you say the n word. I hope such evil communist censorship will convince you to use something other than lemmy.

load more comments (3 replies)
load more comments (16 replies)