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MeanwhileOnGrad
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The irony that he started lemmy because he got a ban and then does the same shit on his own platform.
Power corrupts but as others have said, the joke is on them as it is decentralized and no longer theirs. They just helped start it.
I think that was intended
There's a section in the install docs about how Lemmy is designed to be anti censorship and for the people, and I think this lines up with the devs' values
This leads me to think that the dev has very good intentions, but is supremely blind to his biases.
sounds like a regular human
Yeah. Pretty much. Except his blindness is making him justify a genocidal regime.
yeah that's what I think as well
Using their own creation against them is poetic justice though. Nothing stopping anyone from forking the backend either.
Or you could just join an instance that isn't federated with lemmy.ml
Is literature.cafe defederated with them?
Nah, just Lemmygrad and Hexbear, but if it gets too annoying I'll find one that is. I've gotten no pushbacks criticizing Marx, Lenin, or Stalin there, personally speaking.
lemm.ee is the opposite (doesn't defed from them) and pretty liberal-minded for anybody looking for that.
Block should be handled by client so any user can decide for themselves.
I don't see how that essay is about-- oh, ziq is the author. Ohhh this asshole thinks that's a bad thing.
... should we have been on Raddle?