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:

  • CarbonIceDragonEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I can’t really comment on what alternatives would be best, because I’m not knowledgeable enough about the options and the technical aspects of this, though I have heard nothing but good things on reddit about kbin except for it being a bit early in development.

    I am however incredibly relieved to see this post, I learned about Lemmy the other day, decided to go for it for my reddit alternative as I like the idea of the fediverse in general but tend not to use my Mastodon much as I don’t really like microblogging and heavily prefer a reddit like system more reminiscent of web forums, and came here as it was the only furry instance I could find- but then today have been starting to have some regrets after really starting to look at the largest communies here and realizing that the largest and developer-created instance is full of, well, that… Since there’s not really the same kind of political discussion here to make such things visible, I was kinda anxiously trying to figure out if I had made a mistake coming here/ if this place held the same kind of views.