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.
It is not. The beauty of it is, that the project is open source, so others can fork it or maybe just add features they want. Since it is decentralized, it is also easy to not go to ml or other instances.
Which is why there are constant attacks on the developer of PieFed.
To be fair Rimu needs to step back from posting a bit. Or have a separate unassociated account to post personally from. It’s just generally a good thing to do professionally.
Why? The first report of power abuse and transphobia I discovered appears to be highly misleading. He was also not wrong about the AI use by dbzer0. And his list of banned users contains some names already known to the active users here, so it’s plausible that the rest of the users are problematic as well. For example, I didn’t know anything about Diva until just this week, but apparently she’s a mod of Hexbear’s Slop, which in itself is a massive red flag, considering the community is Hexbear’s main source of harassment, at least from my personal experience of being targeted by them twice.
Edit: Included a quote.
The point is, unfortunately the truth doesn’t matter. It’s generally a good idea to separate personal and professional. The Lemmy developers should have done it, and rightfully get called out for it as well. Them being salty taking advantage of someone else over it was inevitable. ML like hypocrisy like ducks like water.
I’m 100% with you on the need to separate personal and professional, which is also what I do outside Lemmy. I don’t even touch politics in some of those spaces. We may have the most informed positions that even make sense to the majority, but those discussions always lead to division, which is not needed in communities based around specific subjects or interests.
Yeah. I didn’t take sides on any of this because Rimu and others kind of put themselves in it. I understand the actions Rimu took afterwards even if I disagree with them. Even if I think a lot of the drama against him was astroturfed. It was all very human and predictable. Any of us are capable of it and likely have been. It’s the sort of thing that teaches you to separate private and professional.