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this post was submitted on 01 Aug 2023
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I think there are some legitimate concerns here though. Not necessarily of the ideology the primary devs, but the way it manifests with a soft ban on certain topics (Ukraine), and how they seem fine letting lemmygrad trolls shut down basically every other world news thread. And I'm not talking about people having different opinions here - I'm talking about users who openly state that they seek to disrupt discussion in order to deny the information space to non-ML ideas entirely. I have reported a number of these comments which are blatantly and openly stating that they only intend to troll and disrupt and nothing ever happens. Yet if you take a slightly wrong tone in responding to the sel-avowed trolls they are quite quick with the ban hammer.
Well my personal take is that it's his instance and if he wants to restrict non-commie stuff here well that's bad but ultimately it's his instance and it's why I only have an alt on this instance for emergencies, I can't align with commie beliefs. The software is open-source and independent of his beliefs and that's what matters and I also respect him for the work he did.