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

  • gelberhut@lemdro.idEnglish
    2111·
    9 months ago

    You have many good points here. Still, I have a feeling that Lemmy as a platform and as a software is still very coupled with its creators.

    Yes, there are other contributors as well. But these guys currently own the official repo and make key decisions. And if you donate to Lemmy you pay a salary to these two guys (afaik, Lemmy is their full-time work these days).

    So, for me, it is still rather complicated.

    • ToxicWaste@lemm.eeEnglish
      48·
      9 months ago

      I don’t see a problem about their work, just because of their political orientation. And frankly, neither should you.

      They develop good software, which is open source and everyone can inspect it. There is nothing wrong about them getting paid for it. Not giving donations to them because of what they believe would be the same as an employer running you through a political evaluation before actually employing you.

      Don’t get me wrong: there is nothing wrong about not donating (i did not). But not donating, solely because of some ideology a developer of open source Software has (which does not reflect in the code), seems quite stuck up to me.

      • Lightor@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        I guess lemme ask this. If the devs of lemmy were open Nazis, went to rallies, openly promoted it, etc, would you still feel the same way?