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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please consider supporting Lemmy development⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you for taking the trouble to fact-check!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please consider supporting Lemmy development⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hi Nutomic. I’m new to Lemmy. I was quite impressed with what you have built, and was looking forward to helping Lemmy grow. It must have taken a lot of your effort. I was really enthusiastic about the project and a few weeks back your appeal for funding would probably have had me donating something.

  Unfortunately, I’ve already have had some bad experiences on your instance. I probably would have stayed away from it had I known what it stood for, but - as someone pointed out - this is the oldest instance, has some of the largets forums, so naturally that’s where many people land first.

  And it really is quite an image problem for Lemmy. Someone compared you to Elon tanking (sorry for the bad pun) Tesla sales. Sure, up to some point one can say, imperfect allies, separation of code and ideology, that kind of thing. But I think you see from the comments that for a lot of people it’s too much.

  For me, the combination of your views and what’s represented by .ml fundamentally undermined my trust in Lemmy as a platform. I don’t have the means to validate claims of code or development processs being impartial. It could well be that you did a lot of excellent work and have superb integrity in separating your views from your contributions. I just honestly don’t trust that is the case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please consider supporting Lemmy development⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have very short experience with Lemmy, having just moved here from Reddit. I joined one of the most popular forums on .ml unaware of the fame of this instance, and from my short experience “Treating the Internet respectfully” is the opposite of what is found there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please consider supporting Lemmy development⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can certainly see that Hexbear and the other two are very vocal and toxic here. Engaging in some discussion or getting my views challenged is fine, I’d rather not close myself in a bubble, but it’s sad that they would be so quick to insult and ban you. It does worry that they have some of the biggest communities. I wish I could say “oh well the protocol is neutral” but I think that with most OSS projects it matters tremendously who is at the helm; also, another poster outlined quite well that these instances seem to be the showcase for the system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please consider supporting Lemmy development⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is not wrong

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please consider supporting Lemmy development⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm glad I found this post and the comments. I recently came here from Reddit and joined some random communities just to have something in my feed. I was a bit shocked at hammer and sickle posted non-ironically in the meme group. Noting that communists weren’t better than Nazis got me called an ungrateful shit for existing (which I apparently owe to Stalin) and banned. Moved to the second-biggest meme community the search found, where I’m not banned yet but being educated by Westerners that life in communist coutries was cheerful and Holodomor was an oopsie.

  I’m glad to hear that this is not all that Lemmy stands for, but a bit disappointed learning that top developers are a part of the problem. I’m conflicted about donating to say the least, and it does not bode well for lemmy adoption in general. I’ll stick around to see if other servers gain momentum, but I’ll need to keep an eye open for other reddit alternatives I guess

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google’s dominance on search is declining – for the first time ever!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m using Qwant, used Ecosia before. Really OK for most stuff. I still revert to googling occasionally - mainly for local businesses on maps and sometimes shopping results. But I agree, don’t let perfect be the enemy of good, well said.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU considers tariffs on digital services Big Tech⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  inertia is a thing, but just by having new EU projects avoid the big three you’d already have done a world of good to the IT ecosystem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'An Insult To Life Itself': Hayao Miyazaki’s AI Criticism Resurfaces As OpenAI’s Ghibli-Style Image Trend Takes Over Social Media⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You are special, like it or not :)