It’s one thing to have differing views, but I’ve seen enough attempted reddit migrations to be relieved that the popular communities in the fediverse so far haven’t been about crazy racist stuff or other extreme right bullshit.

I am also glad that I’m getting away from reddit’s general political shitposting, which was more left leaning. You couldn’t have any proper discourse on there, and even I with my generally more left leaning views recognized that.

  • Mane25@feddit.uk
    6·
    1 year ago

    They don’t have that power, they don’t control most of the instances, if they do that on their own instances that’s up to them. They couldn’t even secretly embed anything in the code to push an agenda since it’s open source.

    • NotAPenguin@kbin.social
      81·
      1 year ago

      They have that power on their own instance which is the “official” instance and very popular.

      And it just sucks that the software is associated with tankies.

      They could silently change their own instance if they wanted to, there has already been some nonsense with them blocking kbin useragents.

      • Mane25@feddit.uk
        3·
        1 year ago

        There’s no “official instance”, it’s free software - lemmy.ml isn’t even a recommended instance at https://join-lemmy.org .

        It’s you that’s perpetuating that association.

        You can’t base your software choices on whether or not you agree with their creators political beliefs or else you won’t use anything. The creator of Javascript has expressed controversial opinions about same-sex marriage and most of the web uses it.

          • Mane25@feddit.uk
            2·
            1 year ago

            That’s because it’s a popular instance.

            Feel free to use what you like, of course, that’s the beauty of the fediverse, but I don’t understand what you’re hung up about now having explained it to you.

            • BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social
              51·
              1 year ago

              This is one of their announcement posts.

              Hey all, longtime Marxist-leninist, recorder of left audiobooks, and megathread shitposter here.

              Posting this in light of a recent one week Reddit ban I earned for shitting on US police, as I’m sure many of us have gotten in recent weeks.

              So I’ve spent the past few months working on a self hostable, federated, Reddit alternative called Lemmy, and it’s pretty much ready to go. Unlike here we’d have ultimate control over all content, and would never have to self censor.

              Obviously as communists, we agitate where the people are, so we should never abandon Reddit entirely, but it’s been clear to all of us from day one, that communities like this stand on unsteady ground, and could be banned or quarantined at any moment by the white supremacist Reddit admins. This would be both a backup and a potentially better alternative. Moderation abilities are there, as well as a slur filter.

              Raddle isn’t an option obviously since it’s run by this arch anti tankie scum, ziq.

              I wanted to ask ppl here if they’d like me to host an instance, and mod all the current mods here.

              https://web.archive.org/web/20230626055233/https://old.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/cqgztr/fuck_the_white_supremacist_reddit_admins_want_me/

              I really don’t think it’s a wild stretch to say that the people who run an instance that is moderated with a clear political agenda, who actively say that their intent is to promote that agenda, and who are officially promoting that instance in their capacity as developers - are in fact doing so in order to promote that agenda.

              But hey, maybe that’s a reach.