This is just fucking weird, tell me I am not the only one feeling weird how the fascists decided to migrate to Lemmy of all places.
This is just fucking weird, tell me I am not the only one feeling weird how the fascists decided to migrate to Lemmy of all places.
Lemmy is not an inherently left wing project. the fediverse in general has a lot of fash too who want to be able to be even more openly nazi without reprisal
Lemmy is an inherently left wing project. The developer is a communist and built in a slur filter built in, but the nature of FOSS is that anyone can use and change it.
yeah, it's foss. like the lead dev can do w/e, any forks of lemmy made by nazis is still lemmy. same with the trump mastodon instance and ect, that's what a lot of the fediverse is like
Sigh, I'd hoped this was not the case but freedom for fascists ends up being an unfortunate by product always
you could technically put some stuff in the licence about ih you can't use this for reactionary means. but like, who the fuck pays attention to the licence and these fash instances love to play whack a mole and keep popping back up
You can put anything you want in a license, but if there is no capitalist interest involved then good luck having it enforced.
They're anti-communist yet are forced to use tools created by communists, curious. :very-intelligent:
Important distinction: Lemmy as a software project is not inherently left wing, but the core devs and admins are indeed communists. Fascists are going to use the source code either way, but those core devs and admins control the most active instances and set major cultural norms on those instances. They also control which instances get blocked from the flagships. And if they get popular enough that corporations attempt to coop their projects, they will be able to resist that cooption on a principled basis.
I also think there’s potential to add features which make the platform more difficult to monetize and more useful for its users in the context of self-organization