Important Update

We’re going to be setting up a fork to maintain some separation, add additional features, and remove references due to raised concerns.

So, we will not be changing software, and will be continuing business as usual.

We’ve forked the repositories and they can be found at these URLs: https://github.com/PawbSocial/lemmy and https://github.com/PawbSocial/lemmy-ui.

You can follow the instructions at https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/contributors/02-local-development.html for setting up a local development environment.

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Hey everyone!

We received feedback that raised concerns regarding the apparent moderation and censorship issues around lemmy.ml, and allegations made by Feditips about the Lemmy developers.

We’d appreciate some feedback from users of our community (users here, or on the Fediverse), furry.engineer, and pawb.fun.

As it stands, we have defederated from one of the more prominent problematic instances, lemmygrad.ml, but haven’t taken any action against lemmy.ml.

So the question stands: Should we continue running Lemmy, or swap to an alternative?

The currently considered alternative would be kbin.pub (example instance: kbin.social) which shares being a FOSS project with full ActivityPub support.

If we continue to run Lemmy, we wouldn’t be opposed to having a forked version that removes certain elements from the UI, such as the donate icon, but, we would require community assistance to maintain this fork.

Receipts:

  • Frost, Wolffucker 🐺:therian:@masto.brightfur.netB
    9·
    2 years ago

    @crashdoom We’re not on pawb.social, have been considering signing up (*waves paw from Mastodon*), but I like the idea of a fork.

    It sounds like Kbin federates upvotes as microblog /boosts/, of all things, which makes absolutely no sense (i.e. upvoting there comes across as boosting to people on Masto and vice versa), while Lemmy does it as stars/“favorites”, which is much more in line with the concept of an upvote.

    And there’s precedent for forking – the Pleroma devs were shitty, though I can’t remember how, and now there’s the Akkoma fork.