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Please use kbin instead - It's not run by literal Chinese state apologists.
The neat thing about federated social media is you don't have to federate with tankies even if you use their software. kbin appears to have some trouble working with Mastodon. My experience so far is boosts and replies on Mastodon are the #1 driver of new signups to the Lemmy instance I'm on, so it matters.
Does lemmy has somethings like /r/all? Across all instances? I'm not interested in subscribing to specific communities. The way I used reddit most of the time was browsing on /r/all using RIF and then I blocked all subreddits I didn't want to see again (a feature of RIF, you don't even need an account).
Yah it does. Pretty fast too! Mastodon I think suffers from running on RoR. Lemmy is written in Rust.
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It really doesn’t matter, I don’t think. You can avoid the official-ish servers run by developers and join another, or host your own. At the end of the day, Lemmy’s just server-software. Whatever the developer’s politics are, it doesn’t magically poison the software.
I like Lemmy’s stack etc. and do not want to spread some 'FUD' but are tankies (or alt-right) just politics? I think it is bit different than being liberal using software by conservative developers (or vice versa).
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I like Lemmy’s stack etc. and do not want to spread some 'FUD' but are tankies (or alt-right) just politics? I think it is bit different than being liberal using software by conservative developers (or vice versa).
It depends on whether or not the author's politics bleed into the software or somehow influences the user-base; which could be disasterous. I think with Lemmy, though, there isn't much risk for that.
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It really doesn’t matter, I don’t think. You can avoid the official-ish servers run by developers and join another, or host your own. At the end of the day, Lemmy’s just server-software. Whatever the developer’s politics are, it doesn’t magically poison the software.
It matters deeply when the people who run and develop the platform support something that simply shouldn't be supported, and at the end of the day even if they don't control the federation they do control a significant chunk of the direction and policies of the federation. It would be like encouraging everyone to move to a place like voat. Don't give random extremists to the opportunity to control media or any form o…
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It depends on whether or not the author's politics bleed into the software or somehow influences the user-base; which could be disasterous. I think with Lemmy, though, there isn't much risk for that.
There are literally advocates for a genocidal state. Their politics are going to bleed over into the software eventually. To think otherwise is deeply naive.
- foogazi
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There are literally advocates for a genocidal state. Their politics are going to bleed over into the software eventually. To think otherwise is deeply naive.
I just don't see how they could manipulate, outside of their own servers?
The fact that they own the main domain and the main server means they can choose who to federate with cut off large parts of the network at a whim.
The fact they own the software means they can make it easier or harder to surprise or spread certain messages, and do so in very subtle ways.
Do not confuse open source with safe, something can be open source and be abused even if it's able to be self-hosted.
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The neat thing about federated social media is you don't have to federate with tankies even if you use their software. kbin appears to have some trouble working with Mastodon. My experience so far is boosts and replies on Mastodon are the #1 driver of new signups to the Lemmy instance I'm on, so it matters.
You don't have to, but bye joining and supporting the platform you're joining and supporting the developers.
>Don't overthink this. It doesn't matter which instance you use. Nah. Disagree and I don't even know why is this highlighted. It really does matter what you choose. Same with Mastodon. Each instance has an admin who can do whatever they want (eg delete the instance and permaban you) and on top of that each topic has a mod too. Plus your instance can be de-federated by others (what if your instance end up being a far…
This is my biggest issue with current federation implementations, your ability to communicate with people on other instances depends entirely on the whims of your (and their) local BOFH.