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Lemmur discontinued for "political differences"
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Chronicle the life and tale of the fediverse (+ matrix)
Largely a sublemmy about capturing drama, from fediverse spanning drama to just lemmy drama.
Includes lore like how a instance got it's name, how an instance got defederated, how an admin got doxxed, fedihistory etc
(New) This sub's intentions is to an archive/newspaper, as in preferably don't get into fights with each other or the ppl featured in the drama
Tags: fediverse news, lemmy news, lemmyverse
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Several folks hold the opinion (here's a recent one) that the Lemmy devs, acting as primary moderators for the lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml instances, have ignored moderation of pro-CCP, pro-communist discussion threads on those instances. This ends up being detrimental for Lemmy's reputation overall, as:
My own personal opinion here is that as long as the devs aren't building anything malicious or overly political into Lemmy, I don't really care what their personal beliefs are. I work with devs all the time that have different ideological or political beliefs, that doesn't change the quality of the code. Open-source software can be forked and modified if the Lemmy devs cross the line, and by design each instance can run their own version of the underlying software. How the Lemmy devs moderate their instances is only a reflection of their ability to act as effective moderators, which is why (again, by design) choosing your "home" instance is the most important aspect of engaging on Lemmy and the wider Fediverse.
I got banned for this view, somwwhere, yesterday. We live in wacky times
Agreed. The protocol (ActivityPub) and AFAIK the lemmy platform code itself is 'neutral' to such political issues. If a particular instance appears to have a distasteful agenda, we can each decide to move to another instance, or ignore it by filtering out those communities/users with which we don't want to interact.