I don't think reddit started out as a for profit company. iirc it started as some dudes sharing links. I knew a site like that back in the day. Link aggregator and forum made by one dude because he liked the community.

Oh they're absolutely tankies, dessalines website is crystal clear on that. To me this is simply a test of the fediverse. If it works as intended, the devs political orientation shouldn't matter. We'll see.

That blue light thing is pseudo-science. Bodily activity though, yup, that's a big one.

Indeed. Email is a good analogy to explain the federation principle, not to argue about the finer details. But going along with it, spam email is being blocked. Whole IP ranges are blocked ("defederated") by spam filters, because otherwise, good grief...

We absolutely do not need meta. The fediverse is doing just fine. There must be exactly zero tolerance for their likes. Nothing, absolutely nothing good can come from meta if you have been paying any attention at all. They do not benefit users, they milk them.

As the saying goes...

KILL IT BEFORE IT LAYS EGGS

I mean sure, good news is always welcome, but if I'm bombarded by a website by cookie request, download the app AND fullscreen newslettersignup popups... I'm out. Jesus christ.

The downvoting is part of the joke (:

:'|

Exactly. Those are the kinds of personalities that can commit atrocities.

At least lemmy wasn't started by tankies... oh wait.

See my response to the other person.

Read for yourself what he writes on his website. It's pretty grim shit. https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/socialism_faq.md#did-mao-kill-millions-of-people

Conspiracy? One of the devs has a website where he literally openly denies the Uyghur genocide, Tiananmen square massacre, "Mao did nothing wrong", "Ukrainians are Nazis", denies every single critique of USSR and China, and a whole lot of other vile shit. Read for yourself: https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/socialism_faq.md#did-mao-kill-millions-of-people

This is the real test of the fediverse. Can software written by a piece of shit like that exist without being influenced by their garbage political views?

I think it's possible and I like Lemmy to thrive but it's important to keep an eye out for tankies and to not close your eyes to the reality of who started this.

While that is true, I anticipate that as a user you can choose to block all of that, just like I could have a reddit experience without r/conservative and without ads. We will always be able to find our niches, the size of which is determined by how many people share your values.

That being said, it's indeed up to us to make sure the largest communities don't end up on some weird fork that has ads.

The way it works in practice is that the largest instances are where most people go. What is stopping those devs from imposing their views on the community, e.g. by censoring?

You leave reddit because the ceo introduces shitty pricing but you don't mind the main devs being literal fascists?

I think that's everyone. And nobody else cares.

What switches you on?

That's an interesting thought... haven't considered that!

If my instance were to go offline, do the posts/comments stay visible by the other instances?

Ahh! No (android) mobile app is yet able to access kbin, right?