"Tanky" and the perception of Lemmy. (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by Jezebelley@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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I've been trying to make people aware of Lemmy on discord and Mastodon, but it's always met with resistance citing "the devs are pro authoritarianism tankies." Kbin seems to be picking up steam because of the developer baggage.

Do you feel like this negative perception will hamstring Lemmy's growth?

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[-] Jezebelley@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

I think it's become an issue because the type of person to actively leave and protest Reddit will be sensitive, even if overly so, to issues like this.

[-] manitcor@lemmy.intai.tech 10 points 2 years ago

if they can't come to understand the nature of the opensource software that powers thier lives we might not be able to help them but we can work on messaging and education.

the tankies, if that is what they are, dont matter.

[-] Jezebelley@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Oh I don't disagree with you. It's frustrating trying to explain this to this type of person though because they're typically dead set on hating Lemmy by that point.

[-] manitcor@lemmy.intai.tech 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

remember its a type of pre-poisoning thats being done there, people dont generally care until someone comes over pearls pre-clutched. We need to do better marketing mainly IMO.

RE: decentralization and control, we should likely be running forks for our instances rather than actual. There should at least be a few major forks to choose from too.

[-] panda_paddle@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

This. I grew up considering myself to be on the lunatic fringe of the left. It drove my conservative mother crazy. Then I got banned from WhitePeopleTwitter because apparently I'm a fascist.