I was just reading this post https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1gmv76n/is_reddit_going_to_remain_the_primary_space_for/ and many barely see the fediverse as an alternative and they seem to have a negative bias towards it. Super ironic when it comes to the self-hosting community. Yes, some instances are problematic, yes, some devs might have had problematic views. But it doesn’t really matter when it’s federated and FOSS. I think it’s clear-cut that the selfhosting community on Lemmy is a perfect alternative to reddit. Why is there such a negative bias?

  • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    141·
    2 months ago

    Devs are allegedly Marxist-Leninists.

    Redditors dont understand that devs dont exactly have full control of open source software, that different instances are not operated by the devs.

    Edit: Lemmy devs to be specific

    • Jumuta@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      252·
      2 months ago

      I don’t get the hate against the lemmy devs tbh, they have their (perhaps controversial) political views but they leave everyone that’s not on their site alone and it feels like they develop lemmy pretty impartially

      sure they might ban you off ml but that’s their site and they get to do whatever they want with it, just like every other instance

      i mean network effect is a thing i guess but that’s not as important on lemmy where there are usually similarly large communities about generic things on most major instances