Crazy that you would post something like this. You know you’re the face of Lemmy, right? From everyone’s perspective, your ideals represent the project’s ideals.
There’s a reason why projects aiming for widespread adoption do not shout their controversial opinions from the rooftops.
My ideals are of course embedded into Lemmy in some ways, but overall its a self-hostable social media platform, that can be run in any way the server-runner sees fit. This autonomy is completely up to the server runner, and no one, including me, can dictate how they run it, or what content and discussion they choose to platform. If this weren’t the case, there wouldn’t be so many lemmy servers with different and often conflicting viewpoints. I can encourage that diversity, while at the same time saying what I like on the spaces I have a hand in running.
There’s a reason why projects aiming for widespread adoption do not shout their controversial opinions from the rooftops.
Most companies have PR firms to make sure they don’t make controversial statements that would upset their users and shareholders, and affect their profits. I know some would prefer that developers be opinion-less vanilla automatons, because they see user adoption as more important than anything else. To me, having smaller, more enjoyable, more closely-knit communities (with the window to the greater fediverse) is more important.
If someone is offended by a project lead like myself saying: “Israel is carrying out a genocide against the Palestinian people, and it must be stopped”, then they can use reddit which already supports the opposite viewpoint.
The fediverse was developed such that you don’t have to agree with the devs to use it. Unlike corporate social media, you’re free to set up an instance that’s rabidly at odds with the dev’s viewpoints.
Given that, if the devs criticizing the US is so “controversial” that you won’t touch any instance on the fediverse, if you demand that the devs speak in a bland, focus-group tested way, even though you’re not subject to their authority by their own design, then you should probably just stay on corporate social media. Facebook, for example, has a single authority with a marketing team that carefully curates their messaging to appeal as much as possible to a wide audience. We are not Facebook.
The devs built Lemmy as a passion project, and are not just looking to grow it to sell to some venture capitalist firm.
I’m just a filthy casual, but I didn’t look at the OP’s name, don’t have a clue who develops lemmy, and didn’t (still don’t) think to put it on one person’s shoulders to be the “face of Lemmy”.
You are the face of Lemmy. We are the face of Lemmy. It is nothing without its users.
I am glad you made this comment, as it’s given me a moment to reflect on each of our pieces in this crazy puzzle of life. Thanks
Crazy that you would post something like this. You know you’re the face of Lemmy, right? From everyone’s perspective, your ideals represent the project’s ideals.
There’s a reason why projects aiming for widespread adoption do not shout their controversial opinions from the rooftops.
My ideals are of course embedded into Lemmy in some ways, but overall its a self-hostable social media platform, that can be run in any way the server-runner sees fit. This autonomy is completely up to the server runner, and no one, including me, can dictate how they run it, or what content and discussion they choose to platform. If this weren’t the case, there wouldn’t be so many lemmy servers with different and often conflicting viewpoints. I can encourage that diversity, while at the same time saying what I like on the spaces I have a hand in running.
Most companies have PR firms to make sure they don’t make controversial statements that would upset their users and shareholders, and affect their profits. I know some would prefer that developers be opinion-less vanilla automatons, because they see user adoption as more important than anything else. To me, having smaller, more enjoyable, more closely-knit communities (with the window to the greater fediverse) is more important.
If someone is offended by a project lead like myself saying: “Israel is carrying out a genocide against the Palestinian people, and it must be stopped”, then they can use reddit which already supports the opposite viewpoint.
Cool
They lack both the courage and conviction of communists?
The fediverse was developed such that you don’t have to agree with the devs to use it. Unlike corporate social media, you’re free to set up an instance that’s rabidly at odds with the dev’s viewpoints.
Given that, if the devs criticizing the US is so “controversial” that you won’t touch any instance on the fediverse, if you demand that the devs speak in a bland, focus-group tested way, even though you’re not subject to their authority by their own design, then you should probably just stay on corporate social media. Facebook, for example, has a single authority with a marketing team that carefully curates their messaging to appeal as much as possible to a wide audience. We are not Facebook.
The devs built Lemmy as a passion project, and are not just looking to grow it to sell to some venture capitalist firm.
Yeah, but that reason is cowardice and a willingness to trade a correct position for a popular one, so fuck all that anyway.
I stand by these ideals.
Yeah, @Dessalines@lemmy.ml better be careful what they say, or Lemmy Developers Ltd will fire them.
I’m just a filthy casual, but I didn’t look at the OP’s name, don’t have a clue who develops lemmy, and didn’t (still don’t) think to put it on one person’s shoulders to be the “face of Lemmy”.
You are the face of Lemmy. We are the face of Lemmy. It is nothing without its users.
I am glad you made this comment, as it’s given me a moment to reflect on each of our pieces in this crazy puzzle of life. Thanks