• James_Jim_Jimmy@lemm.ee
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    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.

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      1 year ago

      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.

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        1 year ago

        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.

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        1 year ago

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

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          1 year ago

          Bro stop crying. The devs don’t profit from this like a private company would. Don’t use their instance, spin up your own, the project is open source and bigger than them. Your political grandstanding means nothing.

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          Lemmy is literally just a GUI for the ActivityPub protocol. You don’t have to love or support lemmy to be involved here, and that is what makes ActivityPub so incredible. You can get the exact same content using a wholly different platform. Check out kbin or mastodon or something.

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        1 year ago

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

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      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

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        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?

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        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

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        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