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Why lemmy instead kbin? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by Facni@kbin.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Alexmitter@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I first was on Lemmy, now on kbin. Kbin is just a much more nicer experience. Also it's not developed by tankies who glorify f*cking Mao Zedong. Simple as that.

[–] freebrick@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You were on lemmygrad?

[–] Alexmitter@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just looked a bit through the mastodon accounts of core developers.

[–] minorsecond@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The tankie thing keeps pushing me away from lemmy, but lemmy seems to be the only software getting clients at the moment. So I'm torn. I want an iOS client badly, but I don't want to support tankies.

I suppose I shouldn't sell out for a nice app though.

[–] LostCause@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not like they get money from that, they do get money from donations, but I don‘t think just using an open source product is support.

I use like hundreds of open source things and idk the ideology of any of the devs and I don‘t care, they could turn out to be serial killers, I don‘t see my use of their product as an issue. Monetary support is the difference to me.

Maybe I got some messed up morals though, wouldn’t be the first time.

[–] HanDman@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Social networks, even open source ones are only successful if lots of people use them. The more people who join and contribute to the community, the more other people will find things that interest them and then join. Any engagement with the network increases it’s reach and therefore influence. If that network is run by tankies I’d rather not add to its power.

[–] esty@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Lemmy is not ran by tankies, even if it may be developed by one - if the lead devs go off the rails, someone can always fork it and continue development elsewhere; and if any instance goes off the rails it can be defederated (and this is already happening!)