Guess where? Unironically r/Save3rdPartyApps

The Reddit search for Lemmy also gives these privacy copy-pasta as top results when searching for Lemmy. I’m still betting that Reddit employees are involved in boosting these posts.

  • floofloof@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Whatever you think of the developers’ politics, the fact is that it’s federated and open source. So if you don’t like the politics of an instance you don’t have to use that instance. And if you administer an instance and you don’t like the content from another instance, you can defederate from that other instance. If the code has issues (which anyway are very seldom political) anyone can contribute a fix. And if the developers start taking the code in a direction you don’t approve of, you can fork the project and start a new version.

    Given all this, the stuff about the politics of the developers just seems like an attempt to spread FUD.

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      1 year ago

      I took a quick look at the developer’s commentary on that, where he refuted the claims and also pointed out exactly this. His politics are irrelevant to the users of an open source platform. I didn’t see any reason not to support the project on Patreon. I would rather have a wild west full of varied ideas and characters rather than a corporate pack of monopolies, that we know are evil.