Turns out it takes money or a big corporation to stick to your work when you’re essentially a public figure representing a widely used platform. Can’t make an anonymous alt for politics and step down from any positions of power without those.
Turns out it takes money or a big corporation to stick to your work when you’re essentially a public figure representing a widely used platform. Can’t make an anonymous alt for politics and step down from any positions of power without those.
“which spontaneous comment might generate a shitstorm”
Yeah, if it was an issue of them making off-color comments, it might be one thing. Using their position to amplify pro-genocide positions, and silence anti-genocide voices? Another thing entirely.
Putting up with some degree of eccentricity and problematic behavior is legitimately something you have to deal with if something isn’t being run by committee (which has its own set of issues). But the core issue with the Lemmy devs is that they’re fascists who seek to amplify fascist talking points, not that they’re ‘untrained’ in PR. Fuck them.