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Lemmy is software. It’s like Mastodon. There’s nothing inherent to Lemmy that is by any means political.
I don't think tech is neutral.
I am not comfortable about tech created by people who have a bad attitude towards human rights.
@feditips @Erik
I sympathise, but I also think separating politics from the software to some extent is important for the fediverse at large. If core devs are problematic, then fork or put up new independent instances. There’s gotta be a bit more teamwork if there’s going to be a good ecosystem of software
@feditips @Erik additionally to this, it might be worth considering what values are shared. While you may be accurate, and I might have myself seen a red flag or two about excessive support for Russia/China, I’ve certainly been happy hanging on lemmy and with the views of many there. I’d also question, if we’re going to get real for a second, the values of mastodon as a platform and whether anyone should join it. Point being, I’m inclined to think big picture stuff might win out on this one.
It's not about support for one country or another, or one political viewpoint or another.Trying to present it as such is missing the point and giving it a misleading political cover story that it doesn't deserve.
The red flag is the consistent denial of well-documented human rights abuses. That kind of denial is never acceptable from anyone under any circumstances.
If human rights are abused, and those abuses are well documented, people must not deny the abuses took place.
@feditips @Erik
I hear you. I would imagine lemmy core devs, being marxists or communism sympathisers, would see many critiques of communist states as most likely western/capitalist propaganda, and therefore intrinsically political, however rightly or wrongly that is. I’m open minded and ignorant on the details enough to hear that line of thought out.
I’m curious now, any chance you’d be willing to share those receipts?
The devs ≠ Lemmy
You can say as much about human rights abuses as you want, but using the software, especially when it comes to FOSS, doesn’t support the devs in any way.
I can use Lemmy to spread whatever information I want, right or wrong.
There’s no ideological war happening through the usage alone.
The better solution in my opinion is using the software for purposes the devs would dislike (in this case spreading correct information about human rights abuses) and hence reclaiming the software.