Mars

Very cool to see a fediverse alternative to r/place!

Clarity matters a lot in legal documents. Anyone else remember the case of the comma that cost millions?

Several folks hold the opinion (here’s a recent one) that the Lemmy devs, acting as primary moderators for the lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml instances, have ignored moderation of pro-CCP, pro-communist discussion threads on those instances. This ends up being detrimental for Lemmy’s reputation overall, as:

1. Those instances have some of the highest membership numbers, and as word-of-mouth spreads will mean a lot of newcomers to Lemmy will land into those large instances
2. If the devs don’t moderate their instances a certain way, what are their motives that might bleed into the development direction that Lemmy itself will take? e.g. The devs’ opinion on how to implement a slur filter

My own personal opinion here is that as long as the devs aren’t building anything malicious or overly political into Lemmy, I don’t really care what their personal beliefs are. I work with devs all the time that have different ideological or political beliefs, that doesn’t change the quality of the code. Open-source software can be forked and modified if the Lemmy devs cross the line, and by design each instance can run their own version of the underlying software. How the Lemmy devs moderate their instances is only a reflection of their ability to act as effective moderators, which is why (again, by design) choosing your “home” instance is the most important aspect of engaging on Lemmy and the wider Fediverse.

This is the way

(Just kidding, in Canada, corps fuck us just as hard, if not harder)

Ain’t that the truth. Just look at the cartel that is the telecom companies.