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I'm hearing Lemmy itself, the .ml instance and some others are ran by Tankies that censor criticism of russia and china. What are your thoughts on this? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Kasrean@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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[-] Zak@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

I think people are concerned because both lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml are operated by the Lemmy developers. At a minimum, that means I'd prefer to avoid communities based on lemmy.ml and favor servers with less spicy admins.

There is, however a popular idea that software tends to reflect the values of its authors. Mastodon seems to be "Twitter for nice people" or thereabouts. If Lemmy is "Reddit for militant communists", that's a problem for attracting an audience beyond militant communists because most people don't want to talk to them.

[-] manitcor@lemmy.intai.tech 6 points 1 year ago

I don't think the creators of the software get to dictate the culture here. that would be like saying the developers of PHPBB or InvisionPowerBoard dictate what communities i run on thier projects (they dont).

Preview of the future is that it will be many federations with some bridges rather than one big federation, because of splits and issues like this.