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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It must be hard for the Tankies that developed Lemmy that most users dislike their communities.

It's a shame that a regressive and thoughtless fringe ideology is attached to the project.

But make no mistake, Tankies didn't invent federated social media or ActivityPub, they wrote a single piece of software. If it wasn't Lemmy, it would be Kbin or some other project.

If the Tankies keep it up, they might find their software doesn't get much funding or community attention, so there's no reason to convince yourself that this place will continue to exist as a Lemmy-centric network.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Lol this passive aggressive nonsense is the most american thing in this thread. If you people dont stop having your own opinion, us white folk might just stop funding your little projects! How big and important you are, we definitely wouldnt want to offend you.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I'm not going to be passive aggressive about it, there's a simple reality at play here.

Lemmy is FOSS, so the moment that these tankies try to give themselves some backdoor or whatever to gain undue influence over the system, it will be discovered, forked and everyone will switch and they will be left out in the cold with nothing.

Maybe that'll happen, maybe it won't. Maybe they'll get sick of only running pariah instances and take their ball and go home, except we can make a copy of their ball and keep going.

That's why I'm happy to use the system, it's an open ecosystem and no individual developer has the power to torpedo it, even if they are the founders. Their authoritarian tendencies can't do that much damage in the long run.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I was more talking about how you made it sound like the founders of lemmy are upset with the user base of it as a whole, and then said they are fake founders anyways because the real work was done before them by others, and then said if they keep it up (never said what they were doing to begin with) SOME PEOPLE wink**wink will stop supporting them financially.

Its just dripping with self importance and arrogance. Its an extremely american thing to assume that your viewpoint is the only valid and logical one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

You have me confused with someone else.

How very like a tankie to be unable to follow the basic and obvious facts of a situation. That's necessary to become a tankie.