Comment on The Moral Case for No Longer Engaging With Elon Musk’s X
steeznson@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The fediverse provides an alternative for people who care about using ethical products. Haven’t tried threads/bluesky but they seem like more of the same. Unfortunately I don’t think people care about the ethics of their micro-blogging platform; their biggest priority is having the largest soap box to shout from.
Socsa@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I’m not sure I’d call lemmy ethical considering how much genocide denial there is.
SkyNTP@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I think you missed the part where the person you are replying to is talking about the ethics of the platform itself, not the ethical viewpoint of the users using the platform nor the personal views of the developers.
seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Platforms don’t have ethics. They’re software, not people.
Hadriscus@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Platforms have the ethics of the people administrating them
Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Software is shipped with a license. There are licenses that are more or less ethical.
Ashe@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Do I have bad news about twitter… At least no one profits from it here
zeppo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Lemmy isn’t one entity. It’s several different websites. That would be like calling Linux unethical because some people use it for weapons research… it’s open source, so people can do whatever they want with it. Douglas Crockford famously added "“The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil” to the license for JSON, but it was determined by various people to be unenforceable and not compatible with free software licensing.