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[+] -11 points 2 years ago (6 children)

You should also be asking the question--are Lemmy developers anti-semtic?

This whole situation has seriously caused me to reconsider a great many things about Lemmy. I can't support lemmy, at all, if they are pro-murdering terrorist (Hamas, ISIS, et al). The lemmy.ml instance (run by the developers) has serious foundational issues and to me, I am wondering who it is that is writing this software, and who is paying them.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    If you were genuinely curious one of the devs has a massive manifesto. No need to speculate I’m pretty sure it covers every topic known to man.

    I don’t recall seeing anything particularly antisemitic but I was honestly so dumbfounded I wouldn’t know where to start looking.

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  • So I went back because I was curious. Again it is a fucking wild ride, I suggest yall search it out. I'm not gonna post it because I don't wanna bring any unnecessary bandwagoning. But I searched for anti-semitism real quick and found this:

    It proves absolutely nothing but it would be pretty weird to see the devs of lemmy cite anti-semitism as a reason Orwell was bad if they were also anti-semitic.

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  • [–] -4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    crazy, lemmy is dead to me after these posts. people need to know, it is unsupportable imo.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Bro stop crying. The devs don’t profit from this like a private company would. Don’t use their instance, spin up your own, the project is open source and bigger than them. Your political grandstanding means nothing.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    can you elaborate on this? I wonder if the situation is any other on a platform like reddit so I suppose it's the people not the platform

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    From what I saw, there was one developer spouting some abhorant things, talking about how all Israeli citizens were targets at this point. I haven't seen anything else about other developers sharing these views though so I'm considering it an isolated nutter until we see more

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Lemmy.ml is run by the developers on lemmy, and if you look at the modlog, it looks like the lemmy developers deleted comments then banned a shit ton of people who were not virulently anti-Israel. It is pretty shocking to me, as the anti-Israel stuff remained. Who are the developers, and who is paying them?

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