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    • blightbow
      10•1 year ago

      But are you suggesting this somehow impacts Lemmy?

      Mostly irrelevant in this context, because the topic at hand is the developer denying that they condone these practices and insisting that it is a manufactured narrative. You are replying to a rebuttal of this.

      Your opinion is a completely fair one to have, but we don’t need to shift the conversation back to it every time someone provides a rebuttal to “the dev never actually said that” with receipts.

    • Edgerunner AlexisEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      Yeah I know, I don’t think them being tankies is really a problem for Lemmy as a whole. I was just annoyed that all they had to say is “no we aren’t tankies” and people just took them at their word lol

      • blightbow
        4•1 year ago

        all they had to say is “no we aren’t tankies” and people just took them at their word lol

        IMO it’s a little more cynical than that, they rephrased the narrative into one that they could cleanly reject and be quoted on. As others have pointed out, it is almost a certainty that 1) they do not consider themselves or their ideology to be fascist, and 2) they aren’t supporting genocide if they do not acknowledge that the peoples in question are actually subject to genocide.

        Edit: …Which you’ve already affirmed in one of your previous comments, my bad.

        • Edgerunner Alexis
          -1•1 year ago

          Yup, you’re exactly right with your analysis. They’re pulling typical tankie BS ironically.

        • @[email protected]English
          -1•1 year ago

          The users, communities and posts of those instances are enabled and pushed to innocent users as well and not just contained on their own “island”.

          In their own blogs they actually offer the solution to be defederation of harmful instances but nothing is currently happening with the situation.

    • Widget
      -7•1 year ago

      I guess it kinda matters in that people like me certainly won’t be giving any code contributions, which for an open source project can be critical to its long-term health.

      But devs also tolerate and use tons of code and the licenses that Richard Stallman wrote, even if he’s a huge creepball that a bunch of other free software orgs had to back away from.

      So we’ll see. I also wouldn’t rule out a fork of it just so that it’s officially ran by a less controversial group.