• temptest [any]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    Lemmy has had a huge bias towards seize-the-means-of-production socialism from day 1, which is very important in understanding why it’s different from other reddit clones, and why it has unique features and anti-features. The political orientation is not incidental, it’s vital, and I’m glad to see it hasn’t completely died from the sudden influx of reddit-natives when the API thing happened.

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      1 year ago

      Lemmy just is seizing the means of production of threaded forums and link aggregators. Means sized! We can all go home.

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        1 year ago

        eh… so long as lemmy does not allow server maintainers a means of monitezation I don’t see how lemmy could support growing over a certain size… sorry.

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          I don’t see how lemmy could support growing over a certain size… sorry.

          Good enough. We don’t need sleazy capitalists on here, the devs and server maintainers hake put and are still putting a huge amount of their time into this platform, totally unpaid. The least the rest of us can do is contribute as much as we can as our numbers grow.

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          I don’t think anything stops instances from e.g. running ads, or even charging subscription fees. The code is AGPL, and AGPL permits commercial use.

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      Lemmy IS seizing the means of production, where production is “doing stuff in a reddit like fashion”.