I thought this would be good to share, its an excerpt from an unpublished interview written in december 2020 about Lemmy’s origins and goals. …
Our comrade Dessalines has great insight into the rise and fall of Reddit and where he expects Lemmy to fall in with the Fediverse and away from corporate social media
Yeah if outsiders come around they'll have to follow our rules and vice versa, if things are too incompatible (outright Nazis, brigades, general toxicity etc) just block the whole instance.
I mean if you imagine the old sub, it was full of libs but still very good, and that's a "worst case" scenario. Not to mention that the other two big Lemmy instances that exist right now are very communist slanted (one is called "Lemmygrad" and the other has a head admin with a Fidel Castro profile pic). We also have more activity than they do (this whole thing is very niche until Reddit and Twitter have their "Digg moment"), so there's nothing to be concerned about for the time being. It's all positive stuff!
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A site gets to choose what other sites it federates with, just like you could block specific email addresses from sending you mail.
Yeah if outsiders come around they'll have to follow our rules and vice versa, if things are too incompatible (outright Nazis, brigades, general toxicity etc) just block the whole instance.
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I mean if you imagine the old sub, it was full of libs but still very good, and that's a "worst case" scenario. Not to mention that the other two big Lemmy instances that exist right now are very communist slanted (one is called "Lemmygrad" and the other has a head admin with a Fidel Castro profile pic). We also have more activity than they do (this whole thing is very niche until Reddit and Twitter have their "Digg moment"), so there's nothing to be concerned about for the time being. It's all positive stuff!