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[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Where do you get that from? I have no love for tankies, but from what I've seen, they've built a product that's free of their biases, opensourced it and thrown it over the wall with no strings attached.

If you want to make a rooten-tooten white supremacist nazi instance with Lemmy, you can do exactly that. Nobody has to federate with you, and you don't have to federate with them.

Strange take.

[–] spaduf@slrpnk.net 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Strange take.

Not for folks who have been following the development. It’s one thing if it’s just a couple of devs working on the project and trying their best, it’s an entirely different thing when a couple of devs are shutting out large numbers of contributors (frequently subject matter experts which they desperately need at this point) over relatively trivial issues. It's become a pattern and will almost certainly continue. At this point a significant number of users have been lost because the devs have been largely unable to capitalize on previous waves on growth due to slow development. Because of all this Lemmy has an awful reputation even among the rest of the fediverse and particularly among people who have tried to contribute. A fork would probably be a significant improvement as far as brand perception goes.

[–] deus@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It seems to me they're saying Lemmy needs corporate backing to grow? Cause if they were so bothered by the opinions of the Lemmy devs they could simply use Kbin instead.

[–] Eldritch@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Well that or use an instance that isn't theirs, or doesn't even federate with theirs, or simply block theirs.🤔 I mean this is really throwing the baby out with the bath water.

I have no strong love for leninists/stalinists, and think they accomplish little other than making actual socialists look bad while not being socialist themselves. But I'm not that put off by them. They're generally fairly intellectually weak, and easy to maneuver around. Should you choose to interact with them.

[–] wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They are talking about the people developing lemmy, not some petty fight with the admins of one specific instance.

[–] deus@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Lemmy devs have no power over instances they do not run themselves.

[–] wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Other than writing the software that all of those instances use to stay up to date and in contact with each other, regardless of their federation status.

[–] unnecessarygoat@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

can't people just take the lemmy source code and make their own version of the lemmy api?