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Cake day: March 11th, 2025
  • person1@lemm.eetoMeta (lemm.ee)@lemm.ee•Please consider supporting Lemmy development
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    11 months 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 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.

  • person1@lemm.eetoMeta (lemm.ee)@lemm.ee•Please consider supporting Lemmy development
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    11 months 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.

  • person1@lemm.eetoMeta (lemm.ee)@lemm.ee•Please consider supporting Lemmy development
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    11 months 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

  • person1@lemm.eetomemes@hexbear.net•"Its the Lesser Evil"English
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    1 year ago

    At this point I guess we’re both using fucking Wikipedia. My bad, I must have selected the wrong version. I’ll try to link to regular Wikipedia next time! :) Meanwhile, no need to be hostile.

    Seriously, though - I think the Sources section in Wiki is plenty rich if you want to go and dig deeper or challenge the factuality of the wiki article itself (which I don’t think you are, but again, correct me).

    You are introducing the term “allies” to the discussion, so feel free to define it as you will. Soviets did invade Poland in 1939, and we remember how they treated Warsaw Uprising, what they did in Katyń, and what they did to people who fought for Polish independence. It was really nothing new vs. what pre-Soviet Russia was doing to us.

    I need to go get some sleep, goodnight everyone.

  • person1@lemm.eetomemes@hexbear.net•"Its the Lesser Evil"English
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    1 year ago

    “Would have loved”… “Expanded their border area”… That sounds so innocent. Inappropriate words for what that regime represented and what they did with the countries they colonized. The terror, genocides, poverty, famine and the sheer gray hopelessness of life for generations. It’s surreal reading people who praise them because they were “not as bad as Nazis”. Firstly - disputable claim. But even if you grant that (which many survivors of WWII would be reluctant to do)… that’s as low a bar as you can set.

    I understand that this is mostly posted/read by young Americans, rather privileged and removed from the subject matter. I’m hoping you can reconsider your positions - probably not now, but maybe some time in the future. Try to see this from the perspective of all those “buffer countries” full of non-people born into “zones of influence” where it’s ok to “expand your border area”. It’s extremely soulless.

    But at least this Lemmy instance hasn’t banned me (so far) for hating communism :)

  • person1@lemm.eetomemes@hexbear.net•"Its the Lesser Evil"English
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    1 year ago

    I wonder. I left Reddit to stop using American services. I was warned back then that Lemmy is only good for tech news and literal communists. I was very skeptical, but all the meme communities seem to be promoting hammer and sickle symbols. Last time I spoke out about it I was immediately banned from the community. This is so weird. Why are people standing behind hammer and sickle? It’s a horrible symbol with a horrible history, but many seem enamoured with it. Why? It’s illegal to use it where I live, just like it’s illegal to wear swastikas and heil hitler. It’s not at all a controversial law, never been protested, people just know our history. Why are Americans so quick to wear Soviet insignia?

    edit: spelling