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What's with all the controversy surrounding lemmy's creators? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 years ago by spez@sh.itjust.works to c/outoftheloop@lemmy.world

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I have heard the usual "commie" bullshit and that they deny Uyghur genocide / stalin's crimes etc. I don't have a negative opinion of them, in fact they are one of the most kind and emphatic people on lemmy so I wanted a bit of background. Thanks!

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[–] jeebus@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago

Oh no time to cancel Lemmy bcz the founders believe in stupid things. Let's all move to the next thing until those founders are found out to believe in crazy shit. It's free and open source. So fork it.

[–] glad_cat@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 2 years ago

With the 2 pictures on https://lemmy.ml/u/dessalines, the guy is either a 4chan troll, or a person that I would not enjoy having as a friend.

[–] jsdz@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

I've nothing against communists in general or I wouldn't have signed up on lemmy.ml, but now that I take a look it appears that u/dessalines does maintain a "socalism faq" that includes quite a lot more apologising for Stalin than I would've expected and what appears to be some Uyghur genocide denying among many other objectionable things. It looks pretty bad, although I suppose there's some good stuff in there as well.

To be fair, the political views of reddit, twitter, and facebook management are probably just about as far from my own.