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How Lemmy's Communist Devs Saved It (coship.bloggi.co)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Whatever the authors leanings are, they make a good point. Lemmy has followed Karl Popper's maxim "Tolerant societies must be intolerant of intolerance." It's just that simple.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I mean moderation doesn't neccesarily support that. You can be tolerant but remove stuff that is far in the fringes. Lemmy has quite a mix. World hates left wing, ml is left wing. Ee is pretty open.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Being intolerant does not necessarily mean complete exclusion. Like one-way federation is still allowed right? So if some folks wanna comment they can still get the same content, the folks who don't won't. I think that's a decent middle ground for the meantime.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

If anything it makes their point even stronger if their ideology is screaming at them not to put communists above fascists in any circumstance.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

if their ideology is screaming at them not to put communists above fascists in any circumstance

I really have no idea where you got such an impression

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Years of personal experience. Yes, I'm doing the intellectual equivalent of "Source: I made it up" deal with it.