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    I mean I like the lemmy-verse, but the main devs behind Lemmy are totally tankies. It’s the reason why a lot of people are hesitant in joining

    This is the main developer (one of the only two developers) - if the avatar wasn’t enough, have a look at the “essays” repo in his account… https://github.com/dessalines

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      Just seems kind of silly to avoid a whole platform over the personal ideology of the creator. No one seems to have any problem with some of the extreme anti-human ideologies that a lot of social media ceos have.

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        The devs run lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml. The admins on both remove anything which is negative about china in any way, even if completely truthful like the genocide they are commiting against the uygurs and about the imminent succession crisis, for “orientalism,” something not even listed as a rule, and yet openly criticise the US government. They allow content approving of the uygur genocide. A person coming in to join-lemmy will see lemmy.ml as their first instance. Some of the other major instances have defederated against both if not only lemmygrad.

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        look at any thread over there about the Russia-Ukraine war…it’ll turn a lot of people off for sure

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        Exactly because we made the mistake once, in more naive times, we don’t want to make it again…

        No one seems to have any problem with some of the extreme anti-human ideologies that a lot of social media ceos have.

        That’s patently untrue

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      What specifically bothers you about his essays? Are you bothered purely by the topics, or by the actual content?