People have been complaining about The GIMP name for years, and several designers and artist have been reluctant about using it
Do you have any source for this? Not that I don't believe you but I think you are way over exaggerating this.
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Most previous Reddit alternatives have quickly turned into extremist communities.
Implying lemmy is not extremist community rofl
With posts like "Belarus protests are NATO propaganda" on the front-page we kinda joined the "reddit extremist clones" club already.
Most definitely. Lemmy is already becoming a bit of a meme whenever it pops up in other discussions like Hacker News or Reddit because of this. If mods would stay away from actually "contributing" to this instance Lemmy would have been in a much better shape right now.
It's also becoming a bit of an echo chamber especially with "lemmy council" or whatever just being spineless yes-men noodles that had absolutely nothing of notable value done since their introduction and just brigade posts with votes...
That being said it's kinda moot to discuss it on a dev server. Lets just chill, enjoy the popcorn and wait for the real show to start at some point!
wow these are some gab level conspiracies popping out. Next thing you know the empire made the earth flat! 🤣
I don't mean to come off as rude but it seems that you don't have any tangible evidence that GIMP is a problematic name, right?
As for my anecdotes, just by looking at these drama threads you can see that big majority of people didn't even know the alternative definition of gimp. The chances that someone knew the definition and stopped using the program because of it seem to be astronomically low, is it not?