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"That was before Reddit prollapsing into itself. Now lemmy has fresh new users with no extreme politics as their topic of interest"

I think personally that we should just give it time. We don't need to attract everyone and we've already got a lot of work to do.

I personally believe that what we have today is enough to serve as a battery for organic, natural growth through word of mouth. We just need to keep going and convince people through genuine effort that we can do better as a platform.

Purity testing is an absurd road to go down. Hacker News is full of techbros, and as I understand it, it's run by Valley "angel investors." If "Lemmy = tankies → Lemmy is bad," then Hacker News is the worst thing imaginable.

Which, I mean, Hacker News is awful. Point being, who cares what techbros think?

I've seen this raised quite often and, to be honest, it was kind of true in the beginning and that's probably where the opinion came from.

Ultimately, software like this is free and open to everyone; even those we don't agree with. We're going to have to come to terms with that fact because our own freedom rests upon it. There were going to be authoritarian left servers at some point, it just so happened to be at the beginning. There are also going to be authoritarian right servers if there aren't already. The software doesn't discriminate but it also doesn't discriminate against anyone else.

As for optics, I think all you can do is focus more on the beehaw community or whichever community you want to promote. This post was written to capture the spirit of the community if you need some inspiration. Some might not be convinced and that's okay, we just need to convince enough of their friends :)

If it really matters, suggest Kbin too. We can interact with Kbin magazines and users so Kbin's success is Lemmy's success and vice versa.

The solution to pollution is dilution. Every sane user and instance weakens the grasp of the insane.

"Hacker News is for pedophiles."

How does (or should) one respond to “Lemmy = tankies”

My first question would be: "What's a tankie?"

to a techie, i'd say, it's open source and if they ever overpushed politics, they'd find they'd become the fork as the community would fork away.

to a non-techie, i'd say, everyone's an asshole a different way, but they don't own the whole place like spez and musk do.

and i wouldn't argue. let them walk away haters. this platform isn't ready for everyone to come right now anyway.

Maybe say something like, "That's like saying Reddit is for /r/TheDonald. It's just not true. Those guys are really niche. Lemmy is not that."

I think people responding to this with "just defederate them" or something in that vein are missing the point - the software lemmy is still being developed by "potential" tankies. It's not just an issue if they will ban you from the main instance if you speak against CCP, they decide what gets added to lemmy repo and in which direction they take the development and who's allowed to contribute.

I don't know enough yet to make a decision about it so i'm using both lemmy and kbin for now. Just wanted to point out that "ignore them" is not really an answer that solves everything. And besides, it is always good practice to be skeptical about who you're giving your data and money to on the internet.

Explain that tankie and extreme political instances are consistently defederated, since its a federated platform. They can just find an instance that doesn't interact with the tankie instances.