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.
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.