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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[–] aesviation@lemmings.world 4 points 3 months ago

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

[–] clot27@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago

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

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 3 months 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 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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.

[–] Tuuktuuk@piefed.ee 2 points 3 months ago

PieFed and mBin exist. Both do everything Lemmy does, and a bit more. They use less resources as well. What reason would there be for forking Lemmy? The only reason Lemmy is the most popular one among these is that it was the first one. Since then, better things have surfaced.

[–] graysonuniverse@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

The thought-police strike again.

[–] PixelPilgrim@lemmings.world 1 points 3 months ago

I have the mindset of taking any idea that works for yourself and use it for your purposes. Like we should be stealing ideas from big tech and foss-ing them. Id assume big tech is worse than this maintainer

But what would the fork look like? Finding the maintainer contribution and rewriting them?

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

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

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