Hi everyone. Another refugee from reddit here. What’s the drama with the Lemmy teams politics? I’ve seen a few people warn that they’re not great, but the only example that I actually saw was an argumentative back-and-forth in a github issue about filter lists for slurs.
It didn’t seem particularly damning to me.
They’re full on tankies - this post with admin responses from Lemmy.ml summarizes it well:
https://lemmy.ml/post/1167199
Basically it illustrates their intent to remove “orientalism,” aka critique of the Chinese government from any western sources, from any community on lemmy.ml. It’s not a great look, but at the end of the day with how the fediverse is set up, they can only control things hosted on lemmy.ml, not any other instances. It’s one of the few reasons I signed up here instead of there. If their politics are a deal breaker for you, all you have to do is not interact on that one instance.
I’m not really concerned that any particular instance is really going to impact my usage of the fediverse, but thanks for the info. It’s good to be aware that a particular instance may be biased.
Yeah I ended up in the same boat pretty much. I’ll likely still participate in some lemmy.ml communities, but if discussion of politics comes up I’ll just keep in mind that the community has a certain bias.
What I assume is the main contributor to the Lemmy project, Dessalines, has a Mao Zedong banner on their Lemmy profile page. So this checks out.
Or you can simply use pleroma or something. Even if you pretend not to care now, later on down the road we’re gonna have to listen to your kind whine about the “tankies” ad nauseam sooner or later. Get off the tankie software.