My God. This is world changing. This is amazing.
My God. This is world changing. This is amazing.
Interesting.
I came into this not having formed an opinion, but after reading their proudly linked founding manifesto and viewing some of the comments of the devs, including making light of the Ethnocide of Uyghurs, I’m quite sure they are the very definition of tankies.
That aside, as long as Lemmy the software is open source and people can freely choose with whom to federate, I don’t see it being an issue.
I don’t know why spezzit removed the ability to see visible downvotes. It was an instructive part of the core experience for many years. Today, if you see a comment at -5 you think people must hate it, but in the old days that comment would show up as say 50 / 55 and it would be clear it was a controversial comment rather than wholly reviled. Removing downvotes, removes contextual nuance of the group reaction, which accelerates more downvoting leading to groupthink rather than conversations.
Avoid reddit. Don’t provide engagment.