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[-] James_Jim_Jimmy@lemm.ee 26 points 1 year ago

You should also be asking the question--are Lemmy developers anti-semtic?

This whole situation has seriously caused me to reconsider a great many things about Lemmy. I can't support lemmy, at all, if they are pro-murdering terrorist (Hamas, ISIS, et al). The lemmy.ml instance (run by the developers) has serious foundational issues and to me, I am wondering who it is that is writing this software, and who is paying them.

[-] Terevos@lemm.ee 27 points 1 year ago

Just block lemmy.ml - who cares what the devs think. It's an open source project.

[-] James_Jim_Jimmy@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

It's a problem for states that are supporting developers who are supporting terrorists.

If you were genuinely curious one of the devs has a massive manifesto. No need to speculate I’m pretty sure it covers every topic known to man.

I don’t recall seeing anything particularly antisemitic but I was honestly so dumbfounded I wouldn’t know where to start looking.

So I went back because I was curious. Again it is a fucking wild ride, I suggest yall search it out. I'm not gonna post it because I don't wanna bring any unnecessary bandwagoning. But I searched for anti-semitism real quick and found this:

It proves absolutely nothing but it would be pretty weird to see the devs of lemmy cite anti-semitism as a reason Orwell was bad if they were also anti-semitic.

[-] James_Jim_Jimmy@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

crazy, lemmy is dead to me after these posts. people need to know, it is unsupportable imo.

[-] gmtom@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Okay, then go back to reddit then

[-] James_Jim_Jimmy@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago
[-] avater@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

can you elaborate on this? I wonder if the situation is any other on a platform like reddit so I suppose it's the people not the platform

[-] jscummy@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago

Lemmy has a huge tankie problem and it becomes really apparent when a situation like this comes up

Why tankies/leftists think Palestine is in any way aligned with them is beyond me

[-] avater@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

yeah I see this now, kind of frightening

[-] James_Jim_Jimmy@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

Lemmy.ml is run by the developers on lemmy, and if you look at the modlog, it looks like the lemmy developers deleted comments then banned a shit ton of people who were not virulently anti-Israel. It is pretty shocking to me, as the anti-Israel stuff remained. Who are the developers, and who is paying them?

[-] DWin@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

From what I saw, there was one developer spouting some abhorant things, talking about how all Israeli citizens were targets at this point. I haven't seen anything else about other developers sharing these views though so I'm considering it an isolated nutter until we see more

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