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The World admins are outwardly supporting the Lemmy Devs Dessaline and Nutomic, after being confronted about this banner (piefed-media.feddit.online)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by FiniteBanjo@feddit.online to c/meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works

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https://lemmy.world/post/40585627/21165109

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[–] garth@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 days ago (4 children)

This is not a lemmy.world issue. All Lemmy instances do this, assuming they're running up-to-date builds. The devs added it to the Lemmy code base earlier this year:
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/5318

If you don't like it, then move to a PieFed or mbin instance. Then you have access to all the same content without any connection to dessalines or nutomic.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 11 points 2 days ago

The lemmy.world admins also run a PieFed instance, if you specifically want the lemmy.world admin team but want to use PieFed instead of Lemmy.

https://piefed.world/

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 6 points 2 days ago

They are indeed already on a Piefed instance. Feddit Online is such.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

OP is quite bad at putting their thoughts into words, but OP switching to piefed does not solve the problem. the problem is not that OP sees it, but that everybody else sees it too, and it incentivizes donating to people with bad intentions

[–] walden@wetshav.ing 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

The Lemmy instance that I host also has this pop up because it's built into Lemmy. Am I a bad guy too?

-posted from PieFed :-)

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 6 points 2 days ago

Yep this ran last year as well if I remember correctly.

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online -4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

See the body of the post, when asked about this Serinus said:

So they’ve provided you a solution to your problem, but you don’t want to use it to solve your problem, and you’re mad at them because you’re still using the thing you don’t want to use.

Got it.

That's not an "oops, sorry, out of our control" instead that's a glowing review. Do you share the same opinion as them?

[–] walden@wetshav.ing 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Are you sure you want to die on this hill? It's a silly pop up. Don't use Lemmy -- done.

[+] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online -6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Don't use Lemmy, especially not places like ML and World, and don't use piefed.world either.

And btw, in light of your response, yes I can confidently say you're a bad person.

[–] walden@wetshav.ing 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I've been fighting the same fight as you for a long time, by the way. Thanks for calling me a bad person.

https://lemmy.ml/post/29579005/18394874 (or if you don't want to give them any page views, https://sub.wetshaving.social/comment/3879635)

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online -3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Then why are you in here defending the World admin response to this?

[–] guynamedzero@piefed.zeromedia.vip 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not who you initially responded to but:

Maybe because proving your point in an argument doesn’t mean constantly throwing around insults at anyone who doesn’t share the same opinion as you.

I’m far from a ml fan, (I have them defederated on my instance), but that doesn’t mean I’m going to attack anyone who appreciates the continued development of lemmy.

I absolutely do not agree with the beliefs and actions of the main devs, it’s one of the reasons why I use piefed instead of lemmy, however, I do recognize their contributions to the fediverse. And improvements made to lemmy are very likely to also improve piefed or other fedi-apps

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

My "opinions" that dictatorships, genocide, and war are bad? I think some battles are worth being a little more than passive aggressive about. This is like the Nazi Bar analogy, if you let one Nazi stay in a punk bar then it becomes a Nazi Bar.

[–] guynamedzero@piefed.zeromedia.vip 0 points 1 day ago

Yes, those exact ones, I’ve even made posts similar to yours. But when you attack anyone who’s not completely on your side yet, it just pushes more people away, it makes them stronger

[–] User987@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 2 days ago

Sorry but, "I could go make a bunch of custom templates, or you could click one X" is not a "glowing review" in any inhabited universe.

[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

How is that comment you linked to "the admins intentionally supporting the tankie views of the developers"?

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Maybe OP misunderstood the "focus on human connections" part.

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online -4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Supporting those specific developers is supporting their Tankie views, their transphobic views, and their pro-war views. They could have said "sorry yeah we didn't mean to promote them" but instead they defended promoting them and basically thanked them.

[–] asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Uhm yeah no.

That popup is built into Lemmy. It pops up about every year or so. And iirc you should also be able to disable it permanently.

edit: nope, you can't disable it. they removed the option

[+] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online -6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And when given a chance to clarify that Serinus over at lemmy.world/c/support had this to say:

So they’ve provided you a solution to your problem, but you don’t want to use it to solve your problem, and you’re mad at them because you’re still using the thing you don’t want to use.

Got it.

Not apologizing for the banner and instead thanking the Tankies for their work.

[–] asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Cool. Are you taking your anger out on me or something? What's with your attitude?

I'm also not sure why they should apologize for the banner. If you are so bothered by it, go use their Piefed instance. You have the choice. You aren't forced to use Lemmy.