2y ago

What's with all the controversy surrounding lemmy's creators?

I have heard the usual "commie" bullshit and that they deny Uyghur genocide / stalin's crimes etc. I don't have a negative opinion of them, in fact they are one of the most kind and emphatic people on lemmy so I wanted a bit of background. Thanks!

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...It seems like you've described the problem yourself in the OP, but dismissively?
- Do they deny those things? If yes could you please cite the comments.
  
  Flip it.
  Rather we prove they denied it, instead provide sources of their controversial statements.
I've nothing against communists in general or I wouldn't have signed up on lemmy.ml, but now that I take a look it appears that u/dessalines does maintain a "socalism faq" that includes quite a lot more apologising for Stalin than I would've expected and what appears to be some Uyghur genocide denying among many other objectionable things. It looks pretty bad, although I suppose there's some good stuff in there as well.
To be fair, the political views of reddit, twitter, and facebook management are probably just about as far from my own.
- Those factors are what help identify a "tankie", among other things. Communists are cool, but apologia of atrocities is not an inherent tenet of communism, despite what some people on the sketchier parts of Lemmy would have you think.
  
  yeah, that does make sense
They are political extremists but the software is good so far and its open source.
If things go south there will be someone making a fork and staying away from BS.
Lemmygrad, Hexbear and Lemmyml are tankie territory just like Exploding-heads is nazi territory.
With the 2 pictures on https://lemmy.ml/u/dessalines, the guy is either a 4chan troll, or a person that I would not enjoy having as a friend.
Oh no time to cancel Lemmy bcz the founders believe in stupid things. Let's all move to the next thing until those founders are found out to believe in crazy shit. It's free and open source. So fork it.

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