Must surely suck to be the guy. He (unintentionally probably) created a safe space for people hating him. I guess contributions on the Lemmy Github or other fediverse projects like piefed are welcome and probably more efficient than trying to force one of the two lead developers out with a petition.

Lemmy is developed by two (2) people and asking for one of them to leave is effectively just killing the project. If you don’t like it, you can move to an alternative such as PieFed.

Personally, I can’t make myself care about this too much. It’s a doshit take (somewhat understandable considering the guy’s background), but it was publicised over a year ago, he hasn’t said this sort of crap since then*, and Dessalines’ whiteknighting for Russia is IMO way more of an issue morally and politically. But at the end of the day the question is whether Lemmy works fine for you or not and whether the admins’ opinions harm your experience. I don’t think they do, Dessalines bans criticism on his turf but it’s just a handful of communities, while the devs are still providing the infrastructure for diametrically opposed views and communities.

*edit 5 days later: apparently he has posted this quasi-apology in the meantime

I mean, I’m not standing up for the guy, but this petition description does not at all give off a serious tone. Especially at the end.

• You need to have a single clear goal. Not give alternatives, like firing/hiring someone else, maybe someone who is trans and may or may not have a weeb thing going on…
• Definitely end the description (“the issue”) before you start talking about yourself and your own personal opinions,
• and before you start to ramble and say you are “shit posting”. That is not what you wanna see in a petition.
• Make objective statements about the issue and what effect is has; highlight the problem.

Make it serious and I’d be happy to sign. 🤝

I might be giving out boomer vibes saying this. but i believe chris rock said it best:

In the old days, if somebody wanted your job, they just worked harder than you. Now, somebody wants your job, they just wait for you to say some dumb shit.

And lets not start talking about richard stallman opinions about child sexuality … (although tbf eventually he retract his statements).

Imagine if he would have got cancelled before the GNU project started. open source would not have been where it is today. and as someone who likes biographies let me suggest that there is a reason they say “never meet your heroes”. but the problem now is you can read about them on the internet. martin luther king cheated a lot, benjamin frankling owned slaves (although at some point he released them) and the list can go on. All people that did very good things.

People might do great things. but they are not infallible . in fact they could spend so much time and thought on achieving great things they might not have time and attention to develop “normal” attitudes about day to day living.

and adding an extra constraint when hiring for a project that is already competing with companies with billions of dollars in budget is not prudent.

You should also include their support for russian genocidal imperialism.

Let’s hope one day Nutomic, Dessalines and all other degenerate tankie roaches end up in a russian prison. It will be a good lesson for them.

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Nah, promote him instead.