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"Tanky" and the perception of Lemmy. (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world
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I've been trying to make people aware of Lemmy on discord and Mastodon, but it's always met with resistance citing "the devs are pro authoritarianism tankies." Kbin seems to be picking up steam because of the developer baggage.

Do you feel like this negative perception will hamstring Lemmy's growth?

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[โ€“] 14 points 3 years ago (8 children)

No, this is over blown. Whenever visited before the large influx, lemmygrad was so big it made clear who this was for. But not on the technical level. Now it just is a reddit alternative, which also has some questionable communities here and there to be dealt with.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 3 years ago (7 children)

    It's not just lemmygrad, but lemmy.ml as well that are tarnishing Lemmy's reputation.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    It is a very large instance though with different communities. It is more of a technical slog though, barely works.

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    This, their moderation practices have been noticeable enough that they're scaring users away with their blatant support of historically fascist regimes

    https://lemmy.world/post/24798

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 3 years ago

    Thank you for the information. Also I just found out lemmy.ml blocked my entire lemmynsfw instance, shutting me out of most of the content. I specifically did that to show support for sex positivity and not for porn. Seeing the fediverse in general tries to shut NSFW harder than big tech at times. The old, free tumblr was great.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 3 years ago (3 children)

    Oh, this is not good. Now, I might need to pay more attention to this. I was just getting sort of settled into Lemmy, as well.

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