How does (or should) one respond to “Lemmy = tankies” (lib.lgbt)

submitted 1 year ago by Veraticus@lib.lgbt to c/chat@beehaw.org

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I shared my fly.io Lemmy project to Hacker News and one of the first responses was “Lemmy is for tankies.”

This isn’t the first time I’d heard this either. In leaving Reddit and researching alternatives I’d heard it a fair amount.

I think it’s basically untrue; beehaw doesn’t even federate with the big tankie servers. But that seems to require some understanding of what Lemmy actually is.

So… what’s the best way to talk about it and/or get around this optics issue?

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[-] pootriarch@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 9 points 1 year ago

to a techie, i'd say, it's open source and if they ever overpushed politics, they'd find they'd become the fork as the community would fork away.

to a non-techie, i'd say, everyone's an asshole a different way, but they don't own the whole place like spez and musk do.

and i wouldn't argue. let them walk away haters. this platform isn't ready for everyone to come right now anyway.

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