Chat

306 readers

1 users here now

Relaxed section for discussion and debate that doesn't fit anywhere else. Whether it's advice, how your week is going, a link that's at the back of your mind, or something like that, it can likely go here.

Subcommunities on Beehaw:

AskBeehaw

This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

How does (or should) one respond to “Lemmy = tankies” (lib.lgbt)

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

46 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I shared my fly.io Lemmy project to Hacker News and one of the first responses was “Lemmy is for tankies.”

This isn’t the first time I’d heard this either. In leaving Reddit and researching alternatives I’d heard it a fair amount.

I think it’s basically untrue; beehaw doesn’t even federate with the big tankie servers. But that seems to require some understanding of what Lemmy actually is.

So… what’s the best way to talk about it and/or get around this optics issue?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I think personally that we should just give it time. We don't need to attract everyone and we've already got a lot of work to do.

I personally believe that what we have today is enough to serve as a battery for organic, natural growth through word of mouth. We just need to keep going and convince people through genuine effort that we can do better as a platform.

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

Not only do we not need to attract everyone, we cannot attract everyone. At least not short to mid term. If everybody on reddit suddenly jumped on the lemmy bandwagon, the whole network would go down faster than you could blink.

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

Most sane answer. Let the haters hate. You probably won’t convince them otherwise

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is exactly what I think.

I don't think we need people who will not investigate on their own. We're not trying to catch wild animals, but people we will interact with.

I would rather have fewer people who are fully convinced in the project, than have to be constantly reassuring them that the tankies under the bed aren't going to get them.

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

that the tankies under the bed aren’t going to get them.

Are you really ready to make that promise? I have a pretty tall bed and I haven't asked everyone under there what their ideologies are.