I shared my fly.io Lemmy project to Hacker News and one of the first responses was “Lemmy is for tankies.”

This isn’t the first time I’d heard this either. In leaving Reddit and researching alternatives I’d heard it a fair amount.

I think it’s basically untrue; beehaw doesn’t even federate with the big tankie servers. But that seems to require some understanding of what Lemmy actually is.

So… what’s the best way to talk about it and/or get around this optics issue?

  • @weirdo_from_spaceEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    I’ve used Lemmy back when it was basically a wasteland and lemmy.ml was practically the only instance worth bothering with. Admins made a statement where they admitted the main two devs (and admins) were communists, however not everyone involved with the project, and they didn’t employ political discrimination.

    For what it’s worth lemmy.ml also had a capitalist community, so they were fine with allowing opposing ideologies.