In the boiling chaos of reddit over the last few days, I scrolled past some allegations that I didn’t have a chance to thoroughly look into before today’s start to the blackout.
IIRC, if was something to do with a connection between Lemmy’s creator (or maybe the fediverse at large?) and neo nazi/white nationalist ideology, but that’s all I remember off the top of my head. I couldn’t tell at the time if it was just a loyal redditor’s sour grapes, ragebait, or if it had something to it.
Obviously, I’m not going back over to reddit right now to find the thread, and a web search is mostly pulling articles about Motorhead’s Lemmy, lol. Does anyone have any info on this or an idea if why this might have been passed around? I’m new to lemmy, so I don’t know much of the backstory on the page.
I’ve heard the same allegations but heres the thing: Who cares?
Even if its true, just go to instance run by someone whos political ideology doesn’t make you uncomfortable. We’re not beholden to any one instance here, that’s the point.
That’s fair! I’m just new to the fediverse and was initially worried about accidentally winding up in some veiled Parler weirdness. Definitely not the case, loving lemmy so far!