Asklemmy @lemmy.ml SpezCanLigmaBalls @lemmy.world 1y ago

Is Lemmy really ran by neo-nazis?

I saw a comment somewhere saying the title and had links but I lost the comment now. One of the links was going to raddle.me which is a Reddit like site

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The political views of the main devs are controversial but it doesn’t really matter since Lemmy is free and open source. No one owns or runs it. Only lemmy.ml specifically is run by the devs.
- Here is a recent response on github about privacy that you may find relevant.
- What about privacy? Will the devs only get your info if you are a part of Lemmy.ml?
  
  I don't understand this question. This is a public platform, there are no secret messages or info. What do you mean by privacy? Hide what from whom?
  
  Let's put it this way:
  
  Spez, reddit's ceo, used to mod r/jailbait. Did it matter to the users? It didn't. Why should this be any different?
  
  Also, this is a public platform as much as reddit is. Reddit's TOS is horrible and yet people stayed. Lemmy is not worse than reddit in terms of privacy. I had to use a script/program before deleting my reddit accounts because reddit won't delete what's in there.
  
  According to the current readme: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy#features you will be able to delete all your post with account deletion. This also align with the warning text before deleting your account.
  
  Also most instance are hosted by community members, and are community funded. I think most instance don't have the interest, or even the means to sell your data.
  
  However, by the nature of OSS, everyone can modify the code when they start a instance. So theoretically, the admins can track you. Also by nature of the federation, your data will also be present on other instances that is federated with yours, but what they got should mostly be public informations (namely information of your post). And they don't necessarily need to delete that info after you deleted your account.
  
  That being said, the privacy aspect of these small community-funded federated service should be order of magnitude better than most other social media site, where their entire business model is to spy on you and sell your data.
I haven't seen that accusation. There are some communists but no Nazis that I've seen. And I'll take a communist over a Nazi 200% of the time.
No, it's run by tankies, not neo-Nazis.
- It isn’t run by them since the platform is open source. They run Lemmy.ml but other instances are free of their influence.
  
  They also run the project, unless someone is going to fork it. I'm not suggesting anybody does or being critical at all though.
- Which is why I'm on Kbin instead, frankly.
See one of the two devs' essays here for his political views: https://github.com/dessalines/essays

Having said that, you're free to join a different instance (like the one I'm commenting from), if you have issues with that. I haven't personally noticed anything actually problematic though.

Edit: quick answer -> definitely not neo-nazis, and probably not relevant either
No you’re thinking of twitter
As others have said, so what? It's decentralized platform. If you don't want to interact with them, then don't. Nobody runs lemmy. It's a collection of instances communicating with each other. That is the beauty of it.
Apparently “a few” essays on communism is thousands of links and articles.
It's decentralized. It isn't run by anyone.
No. That's a new one, though.

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