Update from Lemmy (devs) after the Reddit blackout

This will be the one thing that causes Lemmy to fall….. pure burnout. It’s 2 guys making nothing and thousands of winey folks expecting this to be Reddit overnight.

On another topic, there are rumors circulating that we are fascists or supported genocide.

This is the part that I think will make it more difficult, since I imagine there are quite a few devs that would rather contribute to projects by less politically-outspoken project owners.

(I would also note that they don't deny being tankies, and tankies tend to insist they aren't fascists. They also deny the Uyghur genocide so they have that going for them too.)

This exactly. I'm a software engineer and I'm itching to contribute to one of these systems, but I do not agree with some of the stuff I've seen posted by one of the developers of Lemmy. It just leaves a sour taste in my mouth about the whole thing.
- Same here, despite the fact that Lemmy is built on Rust and React which I find far more technically interesting, I’ve decided to help out on Kbin, which is fullstack PHP.
- The software is open-source, you or anyone who knows the language could fork it and work on it, hopefully someone less problematic.
I keep hoping to see a small group of Rust devs fork Lenny and just take it over and make it non-tankie, and then hosts can switch over to that codebase and the original devs can fade into obscurity.

Funny they had to add that little bit about their political views. In case anyone is wondering, the devs and (who are also the mods of lemmy.ml) deny the Uyghur genocide happened or is happening.

Really? Do you have a source for that?
- https://dessalines.github.io/essays/socialism_faq.html#whats-going-on-with-the-uyghurs
- https://dataterm.digital/comment/121304 goes into it

Completely makes sense they are slammed with development issues. I hope more people can offer help on that front. I can only offer money to their cause.

re: claim of devs supporting genocide.. I've seen this claim made multiple times, but never seen it backed up. Anyone have sources where they have made such statements?