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This is an opportunity for any users, server admins, or interested third parties to ask anything they'd like to @nutomic@lemmy.ml and I about Lemmy. This includes its development and future, as well as wider issues relevant to the social media landscape today.

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[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 26 points 1 year ago (18 children)

I have heard some respectable communities, namely r/AskHistorians, express hesitance at coming to Lemmy in part over fears of appearing biased due to the overt political stance of Lemmy's creators. In other words, it's hard to be a neutral body in affiliation with anything that has an overt political stance.

I wonder what the devs of Lemmy think of this hesitance. Is it unreasonable and itself biased? Or do you see any potential for finding a way to facilitate a platform that would allow for a more neutral space?

[–] jernej@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Doesn't the federation part fix that? Couldn't they host their own server or be on a more neutral instance? or am I missing the point?

[–] sotolf@programming.dev 16 points 1 year ago

They could, if they cared to research that much, which many don't seem to want to do.

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