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Lemmy politics (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi everyone. Another refugee from reddit here. What's the drama with the Lemmy teams politics? I've seen a few people warn that they're not great, but the only example that I actually saw was an argumentative back-and-forth in a github issue about filter lists for slurs.

It didn't seem particularly damning to me.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (18 children)

If you look at the main dev's profile pictures, they are pictures of Fidel Castro as a young man. They are one of the only new big instances that hasn't blocked lemmygrad.ml, which is basically a tankie pro-CCP pro-Russian-invasion instance, and it is rumored that they mod them with their alts, and that lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml are hosted on the same IP address. Lemmy.ml being the biggest or one of the biggest instances, and also the main developers being the leaders of that side, it makes sense to worry a bit.

But as others have said, just don't give them money, sign up elsewhere and you're good.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago

they mod them with their alts

It's not a rumor and they don't use alts. @desalinnes is the head mod of lemmygrad and lemmy.ml, and also one of the two head devs. There is no conspiracy. Lemmy was created by MLs for MLs. Stop using the evil tankie software if you disagree.

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