this is my favorite post there, deeply unserious person CW: cognitohazard
“First they came for…” WHO??? WHO DID THEY FIRST COME FOR LMAO
Ah yes the good old “join a social media site created by socialists and then get mad that it has socialists on it” move. Classic.
Why don’t they just go back to Reddit? It has everything they want and zero tankies.
The vast majority of them are white Amerikans; their opinions don’t matter on a global scale, and will soon be swept into the dustbin of history as de-dollarization accelerates. The rest of them wish they were crackers; and as such, can similarly be disregarded for minstrelry.
Who the fuck do you think is going to develop anti-corporate media for you? Capitalists?
Your choice is between communists and people who will only make anything if they think they can later sell you out to corporations. Fucking choose morons.
Use your fucking brains. The reason you don’t see people other than communists making this software is because it is people with an ideological desire to oppose corporate control that are motivated to make it. You’re harming yourselves with this shit.
Too late, they are already asking for people to make forks of lemmy (which would fuck up federation if you delay updates like it happen to us) or just rewriting all of Lemmy code from rust to java and having everyone move there (they wont)
I don’t know whether it matters that much at this point. Possibilities:
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The liberal forks don’t last when lib developers realise there is nothing in it for them except a lifetime of developing it.
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The liberal forks eventually corporatise in a way that makes them fundamentally incompatible with the original goal of Lemmy which was to escape corporate control of social media.
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The forks continue and it works out fine achieving the original goal.
If 1 or 2 happens, then the issue comes back to communists again.
If 3 happens, it doesn’t matter whether it’s communists in charge or not the intended goal is achieved.
