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People who think Lemmy is too political and refuse to join is good. (beehaw.org)
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https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/140vbey/launching_rlemmymigration_what_communities_have/jmxnzsh/?context=1

Look at here and the people who complain about it being too hard to figure out are the ones complaining about "I can't use muh slurs, this is awful."

"The left of today is very much in favour of censorship to avoid “harm.” This makes those of us in the middle very wary of signing up to any partisan media." /u/decidedlysticky23

/u/misshapensteed claims he isn't far right, but explictly only posts on PoliticalCompassMemes and TheLeftCantMeme and KotakuInAction.

If they are too stupid to figure out we know they're lying, they're too stupid to figure out lemmy.

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[–] CrimsonOnoscopy@beehaw.org 74 points 2 years ago (59 children)

I'm glad that Beehaw doesn't do it, but the other instances shouldn't be federating the Tankies.

Authoritarian, genocide-denial, Stalin-praising politics have no place on the left.

[–] vrojak@feddit.de 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (17 children)

That is the one thing that still makes me unsure of whether I should fully support Lemmy or not. I know how the federation works and that those communities can be easily excluded, but what is off to me is that the two main devs of Lemmy itself (and the Android app) are themselves tankies.

[–] Cube6392@beehaw.org 13 points 2 years ago (6 children)

There was some chatter somewhere about beehaw.org assessing kbin as an alternative. I don't think kbin is ready for primetime in that way yet, but I would be supportive of Lemmy instances converting when the time is right given that the two main developers of Lemmy are the two main admins of the tankiest instance

[–] vrojak@feddit.de 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I heard of kbin too and on paper, it looks like a viable alternative. But as you've said, Lemmy is (as of now) more robust, and getting Reddit users to switch to something even less mature seems like a hard sell. With the Reddit blackout coming soon, Lemmy is just in the prime position to grab all the refugees, most of which will probably never find out about the main devs.

[–] Cube6392@beehaw.org 9 points 2 years ago

I think there needs to be a diversification of who develops Lemmy to include more people who aren't authoritarian apologists. You're never going to agree with everyone you interact with, but sometimes you'll agree with someone you generally disagree with. Architecturally, I think the concept of Lemmy is very sound, but there's a very strong argument that programming is a form of communication, and the messaging that Lemmy is designed for is ungood

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