Not much love for Kbin! \
this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2023
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I much prefer kbin to lemmy so I really appreciate you putting in the effort! I put myself on the alpha list and I look forward to it. :)
Why do you refuse to use Lemmy?
Not OP but if I had to hazard a guess, it's because the lemmy devs are allegedly tankies. The lemmy main dev's banner is a pic of mao zedong
I've seen that "problem" a lot, but they give away the source code for free as proper communists should do, and then it's out of their hands. Just don't go to lemmygrad.ml.
Microsoft also makes a lot of open source software but there's people that want to stay the fuck away from it.
As for me, I just prefer the Kbin layout.
Tankies? Not familiar with that one.
I signed up for kbin because it was easier to understand. Lemmy looked neat but figuring out which instance to join was hard. As for the developers supporting Chinaβ¦ well, Lemmy is open source and the whole point is to make something where you donβt have to agree with the people running it.
There are alleged members of the communist party who are mods at lemmy.ml, or some kind of Chinese state apologists. Those who seek freedom of speech should be forewarned of this.
Lemmy looked neat but figuring out which instance to join was hard
how about any lol, any major instance is ok
and yeah lemmy is open source, there's a lemmy instance for every point on the political spectrum, devs being commies makes no difference for the end result which is a very diverse (fe)diverse
Do they have right to be commies? Sure.
Do I have right not to use their project because of that? You betcha! Especially since there is good (if not better) alternative (kbin)