• HACKthePRISONS
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        -25 months ago

        the free software movement has always eschewed the term “open source” since it was popularized by Eric Raymond.

        further, Lemmy is developed by the admins of the flagship instance lemmy.ml who are avowed communists.

        if you don’t know what you’re talking about about, you can just keep your mouth shut.

        • PatFusty
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          05 months ago

          You should read these posts by the creators of Lemmy

          1. https://lemmy.ml/post/70280

          2. https://lemmy.eus/post/5460

          First points out that lemmy.ml is not the flagship. Second goes through that lemmy was not intended to be left, but was intended to just not be US focused. I am okay with that but if the suggestion is that Lemmy needs to maintain leftist ideologies throughout the FOSS communities then that’s just wrong. If I get proven wrong and you can prove that these communities need to be leftist anti capitalist then I would be happy to close my Lemmy account asap.

          • HACKthePRISONS
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            15 months ago

            whether they like it or not, they are the flagship: the lead developer is the admin. if they decide they need a feature, then it will be implemented and everyone else will get that feature, too. no other instance has such a short lead between their feature implementation and everyone else’.

              • HACKthePRISONS
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                15 months ago

                they explicitly state what they think “flagship instance” was being used to mean 3 years ago. i clearly used it with a different definition. your link is worse than irrelevant: an argument that relies on it falls prey to a logical fallacy called equivocation.

                  • HACKthePRISONS
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                    15 months ago

                    and this meme smacks of an appeal to ridicule. it doesn’t make what you said any more true or undermine the strength of my position. it’s pure rhetoric.

          • HACKthePRISONS
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            15 months ago

            >if the suggestion is that Lemmy needs to maintain leftist ideologies throughout the FOSS communities then that’s just wrong

            i wouldn’t say that. i don’t think anyone did say that. but if you’re going to whine about leftist content in those communities, i don’t think you’re going to find much sympathy, and i don’t think you really deserve any, either.