So I get you are making a distributed reddit alternative. I read that most of you are left politically. You also view reddit as right politically. Which is interesting because I view reddit as left politically in fact extreme left but not as extreme as you are here. Given that reddit has purged many right people and those people have now attempted to also make reddit alternatives like ruqqus, saidit, .win, I get from their perspective they want more freedom which is to basically not have their speech deleted. Then on the left there seems an obsession to silence anyone or thing they don’t like, which I feel I am running that risk just typing this. So if lemmy feels reddit is not left enough as in the words of your comrade nutomic “reddit is far right”, to which i completely disagree but lets play with it, if reddit is not left enough I take it you mean it is not deleting and censoring enough? To which if lemmy is being created as a solution to that then I think the point of lemmy is to allow and enable even more censorship? I have to say if this is the point of lemmy that is both scary and stupid, scary that people think more censorship is in fact needed and stupid in that people would think more censorship is in fact needed, no well I just wanted to type that but stupid in that they need to make a new platform to enable more censorship, like wow.

  • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
    42·
    4 years ago

    I am also concerned that given the lefts pattern of censorship too much focus with lemmy will be put on that instead of how to be against censorship

    This concern is very easily addressed by using a different platform. Nobody is forcing you to use Lemmy, so if this doesn’t appeal to you then feel free to use reddit, Voat, or any other platform that fits your values. The amount of censorship Lemmy has is not your problem.

    • AshliMeachemOP
      33·
      4 years ago

      Yes I get that and I do use other platforms I am genuinely trying to understand the motivations behind lemmy. There is now a lot of platforms doing their own development, many open source and this seems wasteful. Lemmy interests me. I am wondering if like one of my favorite platforms saidit should migrate to it? Should I advocate this to magnora7 and d3rr? I know d3rr is interested in lemmy.

      • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
        41·
        4 years ago

        As far as I understand it, the core motivation behind Lemmy is to provide a left leaning Reddit alternative that explicitly promotes socialist and communist ideology.

        One differentiating factor for Lemmy is that it’s federating over ActivityPub which is an open standard, and I’m not aware of other forum platforms using it at the moment. The advantage of ActivityPub based federation is that every service that uses it can talk to any other service. So, you can share data between Mastodon, Lemmy, PeerTube, PixelFed, Plume, and any other federated platforms. This also allows different competing services in the same space such as Mastodon and Pleroma to work with each other. Meanwhile, traditional commercial platforms like Fb, Reddit, Twitter, and Youtube have zero incentive to allow users to move data between them.

        ActivityPub creates a positive sum game where all the platforms participating benefit from the users on any of the platforms because those users generate content that becomes available to the whole federation. Meanwhile, traditional approach results in a negative sum game where each platform competes with the others for the users.

        On the other hand, I think the question of waste is moot because people can choose to spend their time any way they like. Pretty much any domain you can think of will have duplication because people have different ideas and goals even when solving very similar problems.

        Whether you want to migrate to Lemmy will depend on whether you think the project solves the problems you have. The ideology behind the project is not a problem if you decide to host your own instance, but this particular instance has a left bias and if you disagree with it then it’s probably not a good fit.