Comment on Can someone break down the real differences between kbin, mbin, Lemmy, and PieFed? I know they're all in the Threadiverse, but I'm not sure what the draw is to use one over another.

• fizzle@quokk.au ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You don’t seem to understand.

  The guy who develops the software that runs on all the instances has strongly held political and societal views which are incompatible with mine.

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  • Bazell@lemmy.zip ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I am aware of it. But his software is being used by other people who create instances that don’t support his political and social views. I find it rather amusing.

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    • fizzle@quokk.au ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You’re welcome to be amused.

      Lemmy aside, if a developer was a fascist, or paedophile, or murderer, would you use their software?

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      • Paragone@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        So you hold that ReiserFS instantly became evil when Hans Reiser murdered his wife, even-though ReiserFS was a filesystem, developed by multiple people … too?

        There is a Principle, which the US Marines hold to:

        nazis made more-protective helmets for their troops?

        Steal the design, don’t accept their doctrine.

        Someone made a better truck than we did?

        Steal the design, don’t accept their doctrine.

        That’s an excellent paradigm: differentiate between the technology vs the ideology.

        People who hold that ideology is the whole of reality … do profoundly-idiotic things like insist “you can’t impliment efficiency, because the last person who pushed it was a nazi”.

        Using an ideologue’s software to displace ideology, absolutely is valid use.

        Same with any technology, like the barter-replacement called “money”: some uses are evil, others good, & some turn it into a religion, & many insist that because some make it a religion, therefore it “inherently” is a religion, & no other relationship with it could ever be valid…

        Same with the technology of a “business”, by incorporating it as a Public Benefit Company, & operating it that way, even-though other corporations are operating as anti-benefit/anti-public companies.

        The technology is itself, the origin is itself: they are independently themselves.

        As Torvalds identified, once you release something in GPL-2, the community can’t have it taken-away from them: it’s theirs.

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      • Bazell@lemmy.zip ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        If this is a good software(that doesn’t have spying or security flaws) and they give it for free, then yes. Why not? Person may be a garbage but their work can be good.

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