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Update from Lemmy after the Reddit blackout (From the Lemmy Developer) (join-lemmy.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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Good read, gives me a lot of hope for this project.

I look forward to an exciting future with all of you.

(Also- hopefully this wasn't posted already)

https://join-lemmy.org/news/2023-06-17_-_Update_from_Lemmy_after_the_Reddit_blackout

This was written by the Lemmy devs.

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[-] thedarkfly@feddit.nl 74 points 1 year ago

It seems to have become a habit that most good things about the internet is linked to the EU. I'm really grateful. That being said, I hope that Lemmy can become a collaborative project uniting a lot of devs rather than rely on two people.

About the scandal; as long as their opinions do not influence the platform I don't see them as relevant to Lemmy. If they are illegal, let justice do its work.

[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 13 points 1 year ago

I'm hoping that I need to worry about the morals of my admin more than the morals of the developers.

That said, I would expect the Lemmy project is going to need to scale based on the increase in users. Two developers isn't going to cut it.

[-] iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

...what scandal?

[-] thedarkfly@feddit.nl 13 points 1 year ago

It appears that they support the CCP and deny the Uyghur genocide.

[-] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 36 points 1 year ago

They specifically address this in the article and say it isn't true.

On another topic, there are rumors circulating that we are fascists or supported genocide. These claims are completely false, and like most viral twitter threads, are coming from a single Mastodon user on a personal vendetta who didn’t provide any sources. Such slander doesn’t deserve any response and is best left ignored.

[-] Enantiophobe@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Here is Dessalines denying that any genocide is taking place: https://lemmy.ml/comment/471382

They can say "we don't support genocide" all day long, but denying that any genocide is taking place and actively trying to persuade others that no genocide is happening isn't any better.

I argue that it unintentionally supports a genocide since they're using a platform to (inadvertently) hide the genocide from the public by convincing others that nothing of the sort is happening.

[-] ComradePupIvy@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Refutation of a baseless claim from a geopolitical rival, is not the same as denial.

[-] Enantiophobe@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

True. But Dessalines literally says that he agrees with people who disagree that a genocide is taking place. That is a denial. We can shuffle syntax around all day long.

[-] yokonzo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Link is down

[-] Enantiophobe@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Weird, I just went to it and it seems to work. I'll SS it and post it in my comment for ease.

[-] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

I for one do definitely believe that there is a genocide happening and I'm appalled that we can't do more about it. But people trust in different sources of information. Not believing that a genocide is happening is not the same as actually endorsing genocide.

[-] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

this may appear to you as an irrelevant detail, but... they who?

[-] thedarkfly@feddit.nl 10 points 1 year ago

Sorry about the ambiguity. At least one of the main devs of Lemmy.

[-] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I saw someone else did a bit of research deeper down in the thread. It seems it's questionable but they at least "only" control like two federated instances, lemmy.world not being one of them. Of course, still not good to have someone like that in the dev team :/