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How does (or should) one respond to “Lemmy = tankies” (lib.lgbt)
submitted 2 years ago by Veraticus@lib.lgbt to c/chat@beehaw.org
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I shared my fly.io Lemmy project to Hacker News and one of the first responses was “Lemmy is for tankies.”

This isn’t the first time I’d heard this either. In leaving Reddit and researching alternatives I’d heard it a fair amount.

I think it’s basically untrue; beehaw doesn’t even federate with the big tankie servers. But that seems to require some understanding of what Lemmy actually is.

So… what’s the best way to talk about it and/or get around this optics issue?

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[-] PascalSausage@beehaw.org 21 points 2 years ago

The original developers being tankies doesn’t make everyone using the project tankies. /u/spez used to moderate the jailbait subreddit, that doesn’t mean that everyone using Reddit is a pervert. If anything, it’s actually really easy to keep the tankie shit out by default by using an instance that doesn’t federate into tankie servers. The use case will become more and more clear to folks over time.

[-] Wispy 2 points 2 years ago

What was/is r/jailbait? I heard a lot about it but it sounds bad enough not to look up.

[-] parlaptie@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

Jailbait refers to minors just under the age of 18. Old enough to look adult but still underage. The subreddit contained sexualized pictures of girls in that age range (normally wearing at least some clothing, but not a lot - it was still an sfw sub iirc) until it got a lot of press attention and the sub was banned.

[-] Wispy 1 points 2 years ago

Ugh, ew. I see.

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