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I've been trying to make people aware of Lemmy on discord and Mastodon, but it's always met with resistance citing "the devs are pro authoritarianism tankies." Kbin seems to be picking up steam because of the developer baggage.

Do you feel like this negative perception will hamstring Lemmy's growth?

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[โ€“] manitcor@lemmy.intai.tech 36 points 1 year ago (21 children)

im just shooting that down outright, what about the devs or the server they run matters? as far as I can tell the software works fine, we can fork and run what we like, its a protocol not a proprietary system.

why are people saying the culture must match the devs? do you adopt the culture of all the devs that make the software you use?

do we all need to list the OS's and software stacks we use so politics are clear?

this is silly.

[โ€“] Jezebelley@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I think it's become an issue because the type of person to actively leave and protest Reddit will be sensitive, even if overly so, to issues like this.

[โ€“] manitcor@lemmy.intai.tech 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

if they can't come to understand the nature of the opensource software that powers thier lives we might not be able to help them but we can work on messaging and education.

the tankies, if that is what they are, dont matter.

[โ€“] Jezebelley@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh I don't disagree with you. It's frustrating trying to explain this to this type of person though because they're typically dead set on hating Lemmy by that point.

[โ€“] manitcor@lemmy.intai.tech 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

remember its a type of pre-poisoning thats being done there, people dont generally care until someone comes over pearls pre-clutched. We need to do better marketing mainly IMO.

RE: decentralization and control, we should likely be running forks for our instances rather than actual. There should at least be a few major forks to choose from too.

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