… unfortunately the tankie devs don’t allow others to edit certain things, like the slur list. There was drama about a year or two ago where certain instances wanted to add the slurs tankies use to the blacklist, but the developers refused because they’re fine with certain types of slurs.
Yes, but my point isn’t that they’re scum, because of course they are, but that I didn’t see anything that related to other instances using Lemmy, which is open-source, being locked to the Lemmy.ml slur list.
![/c/[email protected] mod denying "Tiananmen square" massacre.](https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/28324fe7-224c-400e-a96f-09c44265e3bf.webp){kind=link}
That’s a big problem with decentralized platforms like Lemmy: they can easily be co-opted by adversarial third parties.
Yeah except tankie stuff is what Lemmy was designed for
I love all of the instances that say “no tankie shit” but are federated with hexbear.
Raise attention to that matter, point it out to the instance owners and admins.
That’s the good thing about open-source work - it has no true owner.
True!
… unfortunately the tankie devs don’t allow others to edit certain things, like the slur list. There was drama about a year or two ago where certain instances wanted to add the slurs tankies use to the blacklist, but the developers refused because they’re fine with certain types of slurs.
About the slurs, that was maybe true a while ago but that’s no longer the case. https://sh.itjust.works/comment/192425
Are you sure? I’m fairly certain instances define their own slur lists.
Have a read
I might be missing it somewhere in the comment chain, but that looks like a discussion about the Lemmy.ml admins denying genocide and the like.
The Lemmy.ml admins are the developers
Yes, but my point isn’t that they’re scum, because of course they are, but that I didn’t see anything that related to other instances using Lemmy, which is open-source, being locked to the Lemmy.ml slur list.
Fantastic. This is why we can’t have nice things.