I read an old thread documenting the opinions of Lemmy maintainers an the .ml instance. The issue of funding a project with people openly expressing opinions many find distasteful and it being the biggest reddit alternative on the fediverse came up, so here's a topic to discuss it.

What should we do? What are the options?

Answer: No fork necessary, there are Piefed and Mbin.

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[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I am not american and frankly find American style polemics quite hard to understand. Mind me I have quite a few american good friends, and I lived in the USA for a few years too, nothing against USA itself.

But yes Tolerance is at the base of civil life and that's true even with intolerant people.

[–] Rekall_Incorporated@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I find generic phrases such as "tolerance is at the base of civil life" to be unconvincing, especially when parroted in such an aggressively self-aggrandizing manner. You might as well say something along the line of "An apple a day keeps the doctor way".

You either don't have much life experience (and lack intellectual curiosity) or you're just grandstanding online.

[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 day ago

yeah, well, that’s just, like, your opinion, man.

[–] mark@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

What if I told you you were debating with a 14 year old who's using AI to sound cool?

[–] Rekall_Incorporated@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago

Ugh...