It's not silly at all. I also made an account there before realizing the admins are tankies. It honestly sketches me out about Lemmy in general considering they're the two lead (and currently only?) devs. Casts a big shadow over all of Lemmy when the devs are posting Xinjiang genocide denialism and their instance is at the top of the recommendations on join-lemmy.org. With lemmy.grad pretty high up there too.

[–] Korgen@lemmy.korgen.xyz 34 points 1 year ago

Yeah that’s what Lemmy started out as. The thing is with all the Reddit refugees flooding in it is diluting out the tankies. Besides, lemmygrad.ml is blocked by many instances. As for the values of the devs the great thing is that Lemmy is FOSS so if they go rouge someone will just make a fork of Lemmy.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

At least with the way Lemmy is designed it doesn't seem like even the main devs can have much of an impact.

They even write themselves that if they made changes to the Lemmy codebase that some instance admins didn't like, then those admins can decide not to upgrade their instance. The code is also open sourced so anyone with some tech know-how can fork the codebase and remove whatever they don't like.

[–] GarbageShootAlt2@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Are you familiar with the Nayirah Testimony?

[–] yozul 1 points 1 year ago

If you're really that worried about it you could always use kbin instead. It's completely different software made by different people to do pretty much the same thing. You can even use it to follow Lemmy communities. Personally I'm not too worried though, there are more communities now, and the software is open source.

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