edit: btw idk what the fuck an hrtcat is or if they’re even relevant i just wanted to post some ragebait. anyway if u need hrt go diyhrtwiki or diyhrtcafe

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    Just fork Lemmy if the mods are really so evil? Idk why people get so worked up about the politics of the authors of open source software. If the revolution ever comes, the software written by liberals will be very useful for Cybersyn 2.0

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      The politics of the authors matters. The politics of the authors sets the project priorities, determines which features are essential and which features will never be implemented. Running a social media site is a commitment. It requires maintenance. It requires interaction with the developers to troubleshoot problems, fix bugs, add features, etc. I absolutely would not run a social media platform developed by fascists. That would put me in a position where I rely on fascists for technical support, where the fascists understand my own infrastructure better than I do. It would also mean that no features which undermine fascist ideology would likely be developed.

      In addition to being a piece of tech, Lemmy takes on the form of its authors’ politics. Despite them being Communists, this form is a vaguely anarcho-syndicalist one. A federation of autonomous communities. It is a form which allows each community to set their own standards and operate as they see fit. If one believes them to be the stereotypical censorious authoritarians, this should introduce some cognitive dissonance. If a person like this can look at the tech and appreciate the form, but then reject it because “tankies,” it demonstrates a lack of understanding about the underlying problems. They can try to replicate the project in a “non-tankie” form, but they won’t succeed unless they deeply analyze the landscape they are operating in. And if they did deeply analyze the landscape they are operating in, they would more-or-less arrive at the same conclusions as the Lemmy devs vis-à-vis the political economy of social media.

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      It’s because liberals contribute nothing useful to society but are more than happy to steal and take credit for other people’s hard work like the leeches they are.

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    The code for kbin was completely stolen from a trans women

    Raddle it’s what was stolen to make kbin

    Raddle is open source. You literally cannot steal open source code (unless you violate the GPL, which kbin doesn’t), open source code is meant to be borrowed.

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      Edit: It looks like the license issues has not been solved yet even though the author of postmill reported the issue about two months ago, for more info see here: https://raddle.me/f/fediverse/170274/a-reminder-that-kbin-is-still-violating-the-zlib-license-of

      The original post is exaggerating (not all the Kbin code is stolen code), but the Kbin creator used code from a different open source project without any attribution, so for a while it was, to an extent, similar to “stolen code”. Last I checked, the issue was resolved ~amicably, the kbin person provided attribution, and the original creator was satisfied (although I did read her say she was discouraged from continuing her project because she would have appreciated contributions to hers, instead of forking/not attributing).

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    What is the source of this rumour? Can’t find anything online about stolen code from raddle in kbin. Both projects are open source so should be easy to prove.

    Misleading. MinekPo1 found the discussion. The kbin dev had neglected to add attribution for some copied backend code. The postmill dev points it out with links, asks for attribution, gets an apology, is asked if the code can be used or needs to be rewritten, she explains how to fix the licensing and endorses use of the code with proper attribution.

    The framing is overblown for maximum drama.

    Update: https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/pulls/937#issuecomment-1041941
    Turns out Emma had to put a snarky comment, after two months of waiting, in a thread with a Free Software Foundation person offering financial assistance, to get this resolved.

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    stolen from a trans woman

    I fucking hate when people do this shit. Just accuse people of doing shit and throwing out a marginalized group as the “victim” to make their argument stronger. As others have pointed out it’s open source, so it’s not possible to “steal”

    Fuck this disingenuous asshole

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    raddle is the place where you go to find people calling r/completeanarchy radlibs tankies, oh and also the dude who runs it with his million sockpuppets having a conversation with himself

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      I think it really depends. There is definitely some good info out there in some places (although I couldn’t point you there off the top of my head). The questionable advice based entirely or almost entirely on anecdotes definitely is a thing that happens though and it really annoys me.

      The most recent example I can remember was someone with a pretty large platform on Twitter saying “i would highly recommend all trans women get up to AT LEAST 8mg estrodial [sic] ASAP” (direct quote). Like even ignoring the fact it doesn’t mention how you’re getting it (although in this case I know they mean oral or sublingual), it’s just such an absolute statement to make for no reason other than like, your own experience. I got into the target range on less than half that dosage, but I’m not going around telling everyone they need to have my dosage. Yes doctors can suck and you should probably know enough to see if something isn’t right and advocate for yourself, but your doctor not immediately putting you on 8mg is not an attempt to sabotage you or whatever.

      I think people have been starting to wise up to his shit recently, but everything surrounding Dr. Powers bothers me too. Even aside from his terrible politics and transphobia, he just likes to make pronouncements on the right way to do trans healthcare based on not a whole lot, and because of his sort of celebrity status I’ve seen a lot of trans people just take his word and run with it. In some cases you can’t even tell if you didn’t already know that it came from him, because it ends up passed around as just like ‘general knowledge’.