theoryHopefully this defuses the "lemmy is a tankie network" rumour once and for all
ParsleyI've never heard of that. Where did that rumor come from?
Edgerunner AlexisHere are some mod logs from lemmy.ml (which is an instance run by the Lemmy devs) from a few years ago: https://raddle.me/f/TankiesGonnaTank/89852/the-lemmy-ml-admin-is-banning-anyone-that-mentions-stalin-or
Here's one of the Lemmy devs (you can tell it's them from their profile activity) denying genocide: https://old.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/xq49ct/deleted_by_user/iq954mu/
Insisting that fascists are good, actually not fascists at all, as long as their nationalism makes them oppose the US (because the enemy of my enemy is a totally good guy!): https://old.reddit.com/r/DebateCommunism/comments/vgg2x3/thoughts_on_slavoj_zizek/id2cxb8/
There's more here: https://raddle.me/f/lobby/159606/-/comment/294792
kaduBut are you suggesting this somehow impacts Lemmy? It's an open backbone that anybody can use to create an instance - in fact, by default each modlog is open, could you do the same and link the moderator actions /u/spez took in 2018? Could you create your own Reddit and defederate half of the content if you wanted to?
As I see it, Lemmy's creators made their own instance to share their political views - that's it, of course they control the rules over there. They also made their technology public so that I can type out this comment on Lemmy.world, which follows a completely different set of rules.
I guess it kinda matters in that people like me certainly won't be giving any code contributions, which for an open source project can be critical to its long-term health.
But devs also tolerate and use tons of code and the licenses that Richard Stallman wrote, even if he's a huge creepball that a bunch of other free software orgs had to back away from.
So we'll see. I also wouldn't rule out a fork of it just so that it's officially ran by a less controversial group.