It’s a good question and we had a couple of reasons to split. Even though I’m a dev of chapo.chat, I don’t speak for everyone and it’s my personal take
We needed to implement additional features such as moderation ASAP. Brigades is something that we are concerned with so we couldn’t wait on implementation from maintainers
The changes that we needed and the changes we wanted were rather large. We wanted to lower our code standards and develop much faster, without going through PR back and forth with upstream devs. We intend to clean the mess we created and contribute some of those changes upstream if maintainers want them
Our community is “broad tent”. We allow all manners of lefties on our instance. By communism.lemmy.ml standards we are a bunch of liberals. Also I don’t think shitposting is something that would be welcome on that instance, something that we hold dear to our hearts.
The further it goes the more justified reddit ban of their community appears. Just look at their front page - it’s just mass propaganda on the levels of /r/sino lol
Why didn’t they just use communism.lemmy.ml?
It’s a good question and we had a couple of reasons to split. Even though I’m a dev of chapo.chat, I don’t speak for everyone and it’s my personal take
They wanted something that they had full control over
The further it goes the more justified reddit ban of their community appears. Just look at their front page - it’s just mass propaganda on the levels of /r/sino lol