I read an old thread documenting the opinions of Lemmy maintainers an the .ml instance. The issue of funding a project with people openly expressing opinions many find distasteful and it being the biggest reddit alternative on the fediverse came up, so here’s a topic to discuss it.
What should we do? What are the options?
Answer: No fork necessary, there are Piefed and Mbin.
They are insane. But their views don’t seem to ever make it into the code, so I don’t mind for now.
It’s actually pretty interesting.
I recall one incident in lemmy’s infancy where one of the devs tried to ban the use of certain words, but then the community (rightfully) pushed back and said “no, that’s stupid.”