Nathalie Van Raemdonck
It seems like #lemmygradml is down, one of the more controversial Lemmy instances that is primarily Tankie. @feditips among others warned for this instance https://mstdn.social/@feditips/106835057054633379
FediTips has moved! (@[email protected])

Content warning: Please don't use Lemmy :( Human rights, oppression

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Jun 13, 2023 at 1:04pmWeb
Show threadNathalie Van RaemdonckJun 13, 2023
maybe Lemmygrad received a Reddit hug of death, or it was intentionally DDoS'ed?

a reflection: Problematic instances are not uncommon in the fediverse, that's what defederation is for.
What's interesting is how Lemmy devs seem to be of the same 'ideology' as Lemmygrad, which leads to questions about how norms can be coded in software packages, and whether instances running on such software can (or should) be avoided
Show threadJeroen BaertJun 13, 2023
@nvraemdonck Oh that's unfortunate. The @feditips thread is a bit old, has a change occured in leadership at Lemmy dev, or is it still problematic? I was looking into reddit alternatives, and preferred the Lemmy interface over kbin, but reading this ... hmm
Show threadFediTips has moved!Jun 13, 2023

@jbaert @nvraemdonck

When I wrote the original thread, the Lemmygrad and Lemmy website resolved to the same IP address, indicating same ownership.

As far as I know, the lead dev of Lemmy has not changed.

They may be trying to hide their connection to Lemmygrad perhaps?

Show threadJeroen BaertJun 13, 2023
@feditips @nvraemdonck Disappointing.
Show threadNathalie Van RaemdonckJun 13, 2023
@jbaert @feditips feditips still stands by it most recently https://mstdn.social/@feditips/110476830253102884 I've not seen an official stance of Lemmy devs, but they seem to not have defederated from lemmygrad.ml https://lemmy.ml/instances
FediTips has moved! (@[email protected])

WIth Reddit self-destructing, many have been wondering about alternatives on the Fediverse. I do NOT recommend Lemmy. I have serious long-standing deep concerns about the developers, see here: https://mstdn.social/@feditips/106835057054633379 As far as I know, nothing has changed since then and Lemmy's issues remain. Alternatively there's Kbin (https://kbin.social & https://kbin.pub) which seems less problematic. Regarding cryptocurrency issue: https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediparty/pulls/97#issuecomment-663170 #Reddit #Kbin #Lemmy #Fediverse

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Show threadJeroen BaertJun 13, 2023
@nvraemdonck @feditips Thanks for the info!