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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

via hardcoded checks

Yah, I'm going to need a citation on that claim.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Edit: Too many people are misunderstanding this post, so I'm removing its contents. To clarify: No checks exist in the current version of Lemmy - these were parts of previous versions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

First: They did actually end up removing this and making it configurable, check the bottom of the page. In a vacuum, the idea to stop cut-and-clear racists and trolls from using Lemmy is not something that's too controversial. Sure, they are being hard asses about changing their mind and allowing instance owners to configure it themselves (and I'm glad they changed their mind). But there's a big overlap between passionate and opinionated people, so they have to be at times to ensure a project doesn't devolve into something they can't put your passion into anymore.

Second: I mean... what do you expect? In the issue above they actively encourage people to make their own fork of Lemmy and run that if they don't like something from the base version of Lemmy, so I kind of would assume they do as they preach. Instance owners also have the option to block communities without defederation. Lemmy.ml is basically their home instance. If anything this is a reason not to make an account on lemmy.ml, but as long as that doesn't leak into the source code of Lemmy, who cares?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I know they removed it. The post was in reference to Lemmy's development history, not the current source release.