PSA: Alternatives for the most popular lemmy.ml communities - Lemmy
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For all your boycotting needs. I’m sure there’s some mods caught in lemmy.ml [http://lemmy.ml]’s top 10 that are perfectly upstanding and reasonable people, my condolences for the cross-fire. 1. !memes@lemmy.world [/c/memes@lemmy.world] and !memes@sopuli.xyz [/c/memes@sopuli.xyz]. Or of course communities that rule. 2. !asklemmy@lemmy.world [/c/asklemmy@lemmy.world] 3. !linux@programming.dev [/c/linux@programming.dev]. Quite small, plenty of more specific ones available. Also linux is inescapable on lemmy anyway :) 4. !programmer_humor@programming.dev [/c/programmer_humor@programming.dev] 5. !world@lemmy.world [/c/world@lemmy.world] 6. !privacy@lemmy.world [/c/privacy@lemmy.world] and maybe !privacyguides@lemmy.one [/c/privacyguides@lemmy.one], lemmy.one itself seems to be up in the air. !fedigrow@lemm.ee [/c/fedigrow@lemm.ee] says [https://reddthat.com/comment/11037523] !privacy@lemmy.ca [/c/privacy@lemmy.ca]. They really seem to be hiding even from another, those tinfoil hats :) 7. !technology@lemmy.world [/c/technology@lemmy.world] 8. Seems like !comicstrips@lemmy.world [/c/comicstrips@lemmy.world] and !comicbooks@lemmy.world [/c/comicbooks@lemmy.world], various smaller comic-specifc communities as well as !eurographicnovels@lemm.ee [/c/eurographicnovels@lemm.ee] 9. !opensource@programming.dev [/c/opensource@programming.dev] 10. !fuckcars@lemmy.world [/c/fuckcars@lemmy.world] (Out of the loop? Here’s a thread on lemmy.ml mods and their questionable behaviour [https://lemmy.world/post/16211417])

this is my favorite post there, deeply unserious person CW: cognitohazard

  • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    55·
    5 months ago

    Who the fuck do you think is going to develop anti-corporate media for you? Capitalists?

    Your choice is between communists and people who will only make anything if they think they can later sell you out to corporations. Fucking choose morons.

    Use your fucking brains. The reason you don’t see people other than communists making this software is because it is people with an ideological desire to oppose corporate control that are motivated to make it. You’re harming yourselves with this shit.

    • thelastaxolotl [he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      35·
      5 months ago

      Too late, they are already asking for people to make forks of lemmy (which would fuck up federation if you delay updates like it happen to us) or just rewriting all of Lemmy code from rust to java and having everyone move there (they wont)

      • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
        29·
        5 months ago

        I don’t know whether it matters that much at this point. Possibilities:

        1. The liberal forks don’t last when lib developers realise there is nothing in it for them except a lifetime of developing it.

        2. The liberal forks eventually corporatise in a way that makes them fundamentally incompatible with the original goal of Lemmy which was to escape corporate control of social media.

        3. The forks continue and it works out fine achieving the original goal.

        If 1 or 2 happens, then the issue comes back to communists again.

        If 3 happens, it doesn’t matter whether it’s communists in charge or not the intended goal is achieved.

        • thelastaxolotl [he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
          18·
          5 months ago

          Honestly i just see 3 not lasting for long and eventually becoming either 1 or 2 and then just bleed users and die, either way Lemmy would just out last them.