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It seems to have become a habit that most good things about the internet is linked to the EU. I'm really grateful. That being said, I hope that Lemmy can become a collaborative project uniting a lot of devs rather than rely on two people.
About the scandal; as long as their opinions do not influence the platform I don't see them as relevant to Lemmy. If they are illegal, let justice do its work.
I'm hoping that I need to worry about the morals of my admin more than the morals of the developers.
That said, I would expect the Lemmy project is going to need to scale based on the increase in users. Two developers isn't going to cut it.
...what scandal?
It appears that they support the CCP and deny the Uyghur genocide.
They specifically address this in the article and say it isn't true.
Here is Dessalines denying that any genocide is taking place: https://lemmy.ml/comment/471382
They can say "we don't support genocide" all day long, but denying that any genocide is taking place and actively trying to persuade others that no genocide is happening isn't any better.
I argue that it unintentionally supports a genocide since they're using a platform to (inadvertently) hide the genocide from the public by convincing others that nothing of the sort is happening.
Refutation of a baseless claim from a geopolitical rival, is not the same as denial.
True. But Dessalines literally says that he agrees with people who disagree that a genocide is taking place. That is a denial. We can shuffle syntax around all day long.
Link is down
Weird, I just went to it and it seems to work. I'll SS it and post it in my comment for ease.
I for one do definitely believe that there is a genocide happening and I'm appalled that we can't do more about it. But people trust in different sources of information. Not believing that a genocide is happening is not the same as actually endorsing genocide.
this may appear to you as an irrelevant detail, but... they who?
Sorry about the ambiguity. At least one of the main devs of Lemmy.
I saw someone else did a bit of research deeper down in the thread. It seems it's questionable but they at least "only" control like two federated instances, lemmy.world not being one of them. Of course, still not good to have someone like that in the dev team :/
i mean, there's only two people. they ARE the dev team for now.
yeah. not good at all, I'm not comfortable with it. I don't understand people who have access to information on the internet and deny anything obvious, no matter whether it's flat earthers, genocide deniers or ufo believers. how can a brain be this disfunctional?