Hello, these rumors are getting out of hand. To make matters worse, they are rejecting Lemmy (the software) because of the rumors about the developers. You really need to do something about this, because the reputation of Lemmy (the software) is in serious danger. Thank you for listening to my concern about malicious rumors.
Hot take: we’re better off without the type of people that is convinced by argumentum ad hominem.
Because. Let’s pretend for a moment that the coders were hypothetically the long-lost children of Cruela de Vil and Emperor Palpatine*. Even then: it’s still open source, so someone who’s extra distrustful can audit the code and compile it by oneself, and create an instance that does not federate with lemmy.ml or any other here.
*Sorry nutomic and dessalines - it’s just for the sake of the argument.
These rumors are nothing new and the developers of Lemmy have responded to them several times. They are not completely untrue, but IMHO not so relevant if you join a instance not controlled by the main devs or host your own (both of which is highly encouraged even by the main Lemmy developers themselves).
It’s fine, I mean, nobody is making money per user here, so even if the don’t come, hey, more space for us I guess, lol.
The Lemmy developers did adres it recently in a news post: Update from Lemmy after the Reddit blackout. But new people should probably find an instance that fits them better anyway. Most people join lemmy.world and joining smaller instances would even allow them to keep using Beehaw as well.
Who is “you” in your post?
