I just realised, I can’t post anything on lemmy.ml

So, I checked https://lemmy.ml/modlog, there’s a new moderator.

All posts and comments talking about China, Jinping, Russia, and Putin have been deleted and users banned

  • Haui@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    589·
    1 year ago

    Reading this really troubles me. I don’t like the implication that using lemmy is pushing authoritarian ideology.

    If I was born 50 yrs earlier I would literally have been put in the gas chamber. I tick several qualifiers for it.

    • wit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      613·
      1 year ago

      Yes, it might sound worrisome, but I dont think you are pushing authoritarian ideology by using Lemmy. The code itself is fine. The code is not authoritarian. The server which hosts your account is also not authoritarian.

      Lemmy is, right now, the best alternative for a reddit-like platform. It is something created for the users, by the users. By using lemmy, you are not enriching the wallets of the shareholders. By using something like reddit, you provide content and a select few get to buy a new yacht.

      Also, plenty of people are contributing code to lemmy. It is no longer just these 2. The code is also Open-Source. Anyone can fork it and create a new version of lemmy, with compatibility with the current version of lemmy. By using lemmy, you are allowing the possibility that, at any time in the future, someone else comes and says “I have some ideas to improve lemmy, let’s do this on my own terms”, forks it and continues the work without massively spliting the community.

      • Haui@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        161·
        1 year ago

        I really enjoyed reading your explanation. Thank you very much.

        This calms me down quite a bit. :) have a good day.

      • DLSchichtl@lemmy.worldEnglish
        51·
        1 year ago

        I have openly wondered if now, thanks to the wider adoption outside of the tankosphere, would be a good time for a cornerstone fork to put these concerns to bed. It would be nothing more than a signaling that the proverbial hands have changed, but it would certainly soothe these kinds of concerns.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      88·
      1 year ago

      I think you mean 80 years. Unless there were genociding gas chambers in 1973 I haven’t heard about.

      (And I would have been put in one too, just not in 1973.)