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Not just that. People should switch from lemmy to one of the alternatives (mbin, piefed) entirely. Dessalines is still main lemmy dev after all and that's not going to change...
I have zero issues with one of the main devs being a tankie, provided the code is good. It turns out political opinions tend to not impact code quality.
However, I'm unlikely to donate more than code provided he gets most of it, because I don't want to financially support someone who actively supports misinformation.
My beef with Dessalines is 10% his politics, and 90% that he's a power hungry asshole who uses development donations and pays himself to mod and occasionally make a commit. My beef Nutomic is that he's a transphobe and a liar.
Putting up with these clowns was one thing when there were no good alternatives, but now piefed is better than Lemmy in a bunch of ways.
Maybe I'll check it out. I dislike a number of things about Lemmy, but it's been acceptably decent so I haven't looked around much. I've been working on my own Reddit clone, so I've always had a short term mentality about it.
But yeah, if the two main devs didn't have mod positions, I'd be happier.