I shared my fly.io Lemmy project to Hacker News and one of the first responses was “Lemmy is for tankies.”

This isn’t the first time I’d heard this either. In leaving Reddit and researching alternatives I’d heard it a fair amount.

I think it’s basically untrue; beehaw doesn’t even federate with the big tankie servers. But that seems to require some understanding of what Lemmy actually is.

So… what’s the best way to talk about it and/or get around this optics issue?

  • aka_oscar@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    2 years ago

    /u/spez used to moderate the jailbait subreddit

    What the fuck. Why is this guy the ceo

    • CliodhnaBaskerville@beehaw.orgEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      AFAIK he never actively participated. I’ve read that it used to be the case that a mod could add any other user as a mod without the other user having to agree.