I read an old thread documenting the opinions of Lemmy maintainers an the .ml instance. The issue of funding a project with people openly expressing opinions many find distasteful and it being the biggest reddit alternative on the fediverse came up, so here's a topic to discuss it.

What should we do? What are the options?

Answer: No fork necessary, there are Piefed and Mbin.

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[–] m33@lemmy.zip 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Usually it is as this point things turn to shit in opensource/community/fediverse/cooperative. The devs are not the product.

Who will go in holidays with 100% of the team for every product one use ?

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Usually it is as this point things turn to shit in opensource/community/fediverse/cooperative. The devs are not the product.

What does this even mean? Who creates something doesn't matter at all? If that's the case, then using Microshaft products doesn't matter, does it? They can provide the infra and software for bombing Gaza but who cares right? They make software that is worth using so we should keep giving them money. No problem.

[–] m33@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago

Please re again my previous message. I didn’t mention any single thing of your list.

Sorry if this has been triggering for you, have a nice Christmas.

[–] kubica@fedia.io 5 points 4 days ago

Lemmy works over ActivityPub, which is the thing that provides the federation, and what people has been accostumed to call Lemmy as a whole. But there is more software that works with AP. No need to create a copy, other software can do similar things (for example: mbin, piefed, mastodon, etc).

[–] clot27@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

How dare are you a communist😡😡😡 Accept freedom and democracy in your country 🦅🦅🦅

[–] it_depends_man@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What should we do?

There is no "we" and you can start a fork/rewrite if you want to, good luck!

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[–] aesviation@lemmings.world 3 points 3 days ago

No, I think they're doing a great job.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

you can block the tankie instances on lemmy, and any community too, i blocked the triad, and politics,.world, and any individual account that are from those tankie instances.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Just a quick note that PieFed allows you to easily block all users from a given instance, like a personal defederation with no need for admin powers. Your way also works, but you'd have to block thousands of users individually, plus new ones that sign up later.

While in contrast the option that looks like it would work easily, the "instance block", in fact is strongly misleading - still allowing those users to vote on your content, reply to you, submit posts in other communities, DM you, triggering notifications, etc. Essentially it does not "block" the "instance" at all, only muting communities hosted on them.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

So far no one who's able and willing to do the work for a fork has done it so I assume the motivation is low. There's alternate pieces of software mentioned here that have their pros and cons.

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[–] 7uWqKj@lemmy.world -4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Does the term "freedom of opinion" have any meaning to you?

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 4 points 3 days ago

Did the OP say they can't have those opinions?

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