Comment on Why this app is so political?

• realcaseyrollins ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  There is more than one?

  Actually not that I know of, just wolfballs.com, but I assume there are far more lemmy instances that I just forgot about

  What is reactionary?

  Making free-speech instances in response to the main instance

  And why is it bad?

  A couple reasons, firstly, it solidifies Lemmy's reputation as a platform for leftists, and seconds, it unnecessarily divides and isolates right wing users and instances from most Lemmy users who abide by the mainstream Lemmy perspective.

  • masterofballs@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I hope you don't mind me commenting here.

    Making free-speech instances in response to the main instance

    I didn't make that instance as a response to this instance. I made that instance as a response to ruqqus closing down. Which is where I previously spent every day shit posting. I chose Lemmy because the code base is better. And I'm better with rust than python. I also didn't plan to interact with anyone on this instance. One of the devs reached out to me.

    solidifies Lemmy’s reputation as a platform for leftists

    That is literally in the side bar. It says right there this is a community for leftest. I respect that and keep my shit posting on my instance unless its something I think someone here will find useful.

    it unnecessarily divides and isolates right wing users

    I don't think this instance wants right wing content at all. Or users.

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  • MerchantsOfMisery@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    A couple reasons, firstly, it solidifies Lemmy’s reputation as a platform for leftists

    This website literally describes itself as

    A community of leftist privacy and FOSS enthusiasts, run by Lemmy’s developers

    Are you lost? I really don't get people like you.

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    • realcaseyrollins ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      I'm not lost, just mentioning that making your software partisan (either by design or reputation) will limit success and utility of the software in a way that's unnecessarily harmful