The Reddit search for Lemmy also gives these privacy copy-pasta as top results when searching for Lemmy. I'm still betting that Reddit employees are involved in boosting these posts.
And used to moderate r/jailbait a pedophile sub for pedophiles. Oh! That also added in the backend of reddit that he is secretly allowed to edit other people's comments. Its also clear that reddit is saving all data that is deleted since reddit started recreating posts and comments if the user delete too much.
A lot of things we use on the internet were created by bad people, the difference is that this bad person isnt a large corporations and is taking real steps to prevent his own interference by making it open source.
Whatever you think of the developers' politics, the fact is that it's federated and open source. So if you don't like the politics of an instance you don't have to use that instance. And if you administer an instance and you don't like the content from another instance, you can defederate from that other instance. If the code has issues (which anyway are very seldom political) anyone can contribute a fix. And if the developers start taking the code in a direction you don't approve of, you can fork the project and start a new version.
Given all this, the stuff about the politics of the developers just seems like an attempt to spread FUD.
I took a quick look at the developer's commentary on that, where he refuted the claims and also pointed out exactly this. His politics are irrelevant to the users of an open source platform. I didn't see any reason not to support the project on Patreon. I would rather have a wild west full of varied ideas and characters rather than a corporate pack of monopolies, that we know are evil.
I wouldn't call 1000 upvotes massive. That's miniscule on Reddit. I've received 6 times that much on single sentence comments before. If you post something at the right time it's basically guaranteed to get thousands of upvotes. People there will upvote anything.
I can't edit my reply for some reason, but it's hilarious that they're trying to make a case for privacy, as if Reddit has ever done anything besides aggregate your data and sell it to the highest bidder.
Reddit is working itâs way through: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. At first, Lemmy didnât matter. Nothing had any financial impact on them. Now we move on to anger.
Even if it's fixed, there's nothing stopping anyone from running an instance with the delete functions turned off. Or making their own app that mingles with ActivityPub and uses federation to scrape data.
But one will become a lot easier when the spam bots take over, Reddit shoves more ads down your throat and posts by crazy people donât get deleted. Welcome to the new Reddit experience.
They conveniently leave out the fact that the people that develop Lemmy have no say in how itâs used. Thatâs kind of the point of the fediverse. And itâs open source, so if they go off the rails, someone else can pick it up.
There was some news years back that compared data collection of apps on iOS (when Apple was taking measures to limit FB) and Reddit's official app was found to be even worse than the FB app.
A search for âraddle vs lemmyâ also turns up a very spicy post from a couple weeks ago (on raddle) regarding one of Lemmyâs creators, not sure what to make of it personally.
I've noticed most people who make foss software are either communists or libertarians. I don't really care about their political views because they are giving away free shit for not much in return and you have to be a little nutty to do that. If it bothers people they can use kbin. The cool thing about the fediverse is have more choices.
Definitely seems like the creators are some real pieces of shit. But being open sourced means anyone can fork Lemmy anytime and make changes to the code. So if the creators mess with the code, people can just jump ship to a different fork. The integration with activitypub should make that pretty doable.