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We're the creators of Lemmy, Ask Us Anything. Starts Monday, 7 Aug, 1500 CEST (lemmy.ml)

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This is an opportunity for any users, server admins, or interested third parties to ask anything they'd like to @nutomic@lemmy.ml and I about Lemmy. This includes its development and future, as well as wider issues relevant to the social media landscape today.

Note: This will be the thread tmrw, so you can use this thread to ask and vote on questions beforehand.

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[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 26 points 2 years ago (18 children)

I have heard some respectable communities, namely r/AskHistorians, express hesitance at coming to Lemmy in part over fears of appearing biased due to the overt political stance of Lemmy's creators. In other words, it's hard to be a neutral body in affiliation with anything that has an overt political stance.

I wonder what the devs of Lemmy think of this hesitance. Is it unreasonable and itself biased? Or do you see any potential for finding a way to facilitate a platform that would allow for a more neutral space?

[–] sub_ubi@lemmy.ml 43 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

They can run their own lemmy server, and they don't need to federate with any servers run by or for proles or anyone else they find distasteful.

Also, the deepest faith you can have in a political ideology is when you don't recognize you have one.

[–] YearOfTheCommieDesktop@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

Also, the deepest faith you can have in a political ideology is when you don't recognize you have one.

this This is a powerful truth. Some of the most critical actors in maintaining the status quo are the mass of people who are convinced it is the neutral, natural way of the world and not informed by politics at all.

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