Yep, they may be tankies but they have pretty decent values besides that, and if they ever do anything really bad with it there will be many people ready and willing to fork it.
Absolutely true even now. But Lemmy has good APIs which can be used to download all data.
But the core idea is if you really want to have complete control over your data, just roll-out your own instance. Save the data for as long as you like.
Remember when people were critical of Lemmy because an instance admin could shut down and you’d lose all your account history…
There’s also a guy who says that Lemmy was created by a communist.
Well, this time “at least it’s not spez” works even if it’s a fallacy.
Weren’t they a tankie? I’ve heard about it a couple of times on Reddit before joining the fediverse but I don’t have proofs myself.
They are yes. They’re also admins of the oldest lemmy instances, lemmygrad.ml and lemmy.ml (ml stands for “Marxist-Leninist”).
The important point is Lemmy is not beholden to them. By design.
If they fuck with something down the line, it can be forked.
Like how Emby’s attempts to kill itself for profit birthed a fork that came to be known as Jellyfin, which now overshadows it.
Agreed… I’ve come to the conclusion that it doesn’t matter so I don’t give a shit, though.
Finally, somebody says the obvious.
Yep, they may be tankies but they have pretty decent values besides that, and if they ever do anything really bad with it there will be many people ready and willing to fork it.
ML stands for Machine Learning and just became a popular domain for open source apps.
Yeah, but that’s not why lemmygrad chose to use ml lol
But we were talking about lemmy.ml too
Yeah same thing, they were created by the same people
As I understand it: Yes, but they allowed Lemmy to outgrow them.
That’s the most important part.
They do better than Soviet union, lol.
Absolutely true even now. But Lemmy has good APIs which can be used to download all data. But the core idea is if you really want to have complete control over your data, just roll-out your own instance. Save the data for as long as you like.
Sure, it could happen. But it’s not an argument in Reddit’s favor when they’re apparently just as willing to clear out your history too.