WIth Reddit self-destructing, many have been wondering about alternatives on the Fediverse.
I do NOT recommend Lemmy. I have serious long-standing deep concerns about the developers, see here: https://mstdn.social/@feditips/106835057054633379
As far as I know, nothing has changed since then and Lemmy's issues remain.
Alternatively there's Kbin (https://kbin.social & https://kbin.pub) which seems less problematic. Regarding cryptocurrency issue: https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediparty/pulls/97#issuecomment-663170
@feditips What's wrong with lemi, like, the code itself? The devs, as you said on that thread, have lots of issues. However, is that a platform's fault? why not, like, just make our own instances or whatever, where that shit isn't allowed anywhere? If twitter would be open source tomorrow and would be implementing activity pub, hell yeah, I'm all for people making instances, though in practice mastodon has the most important features of twitter anyway, so yeah, twitter doesn't accomplish much at this point anyway, open sourced or not.
I don't think tech is neutral.
If developers have a problematic attitude to human rights, I do not feel comfortable recommending their work.
@feditips imo tech is neutral, but only as long as the devs don't implement mechanisms to allow said bad thing to happen more, like tweet quoting or full text search for example. Those things can be used for good, but are so, so often used for the bad things, abuse and all. Is lemy in this state as well? does it have mechanisms to promote these kinds of behaviour, beside the atitude of the devs? I would probably not use it my self, or at least make another instance to escape the horibility of the main one, but I wouldn't tell everyone to not use it, but to each their own I guess.
@feditips @bgtlover One of the main developers is responsible for compiling one of the more comprehensive lists of US human rights violations circulating on the net: https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/us_atrocities.md He has written many other essays (https://github.com/dessalines/essays), so we don't have to speculate or fill in the blanks.