Social Media Thread of Social Media Drama

[wsippel]

mirroring the great twitter abandonment, some redditors are fleeing for alternatives such as Lemmy, and then discovering  to their dismay that actually it's run by tankies who will not tolerate any ill words about russia or china

https://www.reddit.com/r/Lemmy/comments/143njvy/lemmy_is_run_by_tankies_avoid_it/

Yeah, but Lemmy is open source and federated. Some core Lemmy developers are tankies, and also run the lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml instances AFAIK, but there are many other instances not ran by tankies where you can shit on China and Russia all day long (like lemmy.world or sh.itjust.works). It doesn't really matter which instance you're on, you can still join any federated community. And if somebody really doesn't want to use software developed by tankies, there's kbin (fedia.io, readit.buzz, kbin.social), a completely different implementation of the same protocol, by different developers, written in a different language. And you can still join any community on any federated Lemmy instance if you're on kbin. Problem is that both Lemmy and especially kbin are young and still need a bunch of work and UX polish, but the sudden explosive growth also caused an influx of new developers, so we'll see how things develop.