Many might not know, but the developers of Lemmy are communist tankies - and i’m not joking - that spread propagranda and misinformation. They for example deny the genocide of the Uighurs in China as it is a “hoax perpetated by the western propagandists”.
Now, we don’t know where the creator of Kbin stands, but hopefully they aren’t as controversial. As how I see it all the attention they are getting after the great Reddit escape is going to get quite a bit backtracked when all the tankie stuff starts to get a apparent and drives people away again.
Honestly I’d feel the most comfertable with something as close as possible to Reddit, like a one plattform company connected to the fediverse, instead of umbrella plattforms like Kbin, Mastodon, Pixelfed Etc.
But I am hopeful for Kbin and we will see over time where the Kbin creator goes. Luckily as it is the fediverse I can just jump ship to a different project if I see things going to wrong way lol
Oh geez wow, thanks for sharing. Ah crap, what a shame. Here I was just getting comfortable with Lemmy.
I’m gonna be an optimist and hope that other communities get enough traction to eclipse lemmy.ml, as this month progresses. Judging from what I’ve seen from the devs’ comments so far, they say they don’t care if someone just makes a new instance and runs communities there.
Then again, I feel like if they’re MLs, you never know if they’ll try and actively stop other instances from overtaking lemmy.ml if it comes to that. But I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt – for now, anyway, haha.