BlackCoffee

Steve after joining the Fediverse;

I won't be back honestly.

The fact that they are "willing" to go this route is the writing on the wall.

I also find it so interesting that people and reddit themselves see the platform as "Social Media" and development is has been going that way.

I see it as a link aggregator and forum and treat it as such. I just want to find information, comment about it and have it as dense and "clean" on my screen as possible. but The fact that it looks like another Facebook and instagram clone and it is gonna be the only way to experience it is a hell no from me.

"Have we given consideration to how much our efforts here might inadvertently contribute in some very small way to forwarding those negative social agendas?"

Not an admin or founder but really want to react (sorry for the long post I am also not as wise as the post may seem ;)).

I really think this isn't a rabbit hole you want to dig to deep in.

I do like these questions or cases because it is a really good subject to philosophize about.

In another topic someone had the same gist and this was my response;

"I can understand your reasoning, but would your stance be different if you didn't know the political spectrum/ideology of the devs when joining lemmy or something else?

Just because you don't see something doesn't mean that it isn't there.

Have you vetted every single mod, admin, developer of every online community you joined to see if they are up to your (political) standards?"

I think the question is valid because there are indeed possibilities for the devs or the main/biggest lemmy instance to gain traction and spread the views that they have.

On a different note would it be any different if we would take Reddit and it's subreddits for example?

I am (very) progressive and there are subreddits on Reddit who well...aren't. Those don't align with me politically nor do they align with my view of the world. If Reddit as a whole would gain traction than the risk is there that subreddits and their ideology could be spread wider than in the confined spaces of the site.

Every post I put on the platform itself is engagement and could pull in people who could be vulnerable to ideologies that are different than mine and could be harmful for others.

Does that mean that we as a community are partaking in forwarding the agendas of people who can do "harm"? I would say yes.

But I would also say that a online community is a reflection of society.

I think it is good to have boundaries about what is acceptable, if for one there would be a situation that a possibility would arise that every instance is forced to have a "Stalin was the victim" community or post etc, than questions should be asked.

I don't know how much power the dev's have regarding the instances that aren't theirs so I cannot calculate the risk as of now.

If it is true than he literally shot himself in the foot.

Just like you said if it is true that the "1-3%" of the users that use 3rd party apps (by spez his word) can actually provide a profit for the 3rd party apps and the 90+% that uses official reddit channels still cannot... then they have a very big problem.

I wouldn't even be surprised though. His whole demeanor reeks of jealousy and contempt.

The fact that a 3rd party app was actually featured on the Apple event multiple times and name dropped multiple times as "the" way to use reddit, has to absolutely sting as hell.

Edit; experiencing some lag ;)