• silent_water [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      11 months ago

      nah, it was a politically conscious choice to set up something like reddit, outside the control of capital and the state. the devs have written about it.

      • I mean, yes, but granted, for all I know, I’m supposing that Lemmy was built for open-source software supporters, and I guess alotta ‘civil’ liberals and ‘libertarians’ joined in, due to this cause…

        I was thinking there was like a seperation between the M-Leninist mods (eg. Dessalines) and their site’s followers… like church and state…