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this post was submitted on 19 Oct 2023
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MeanwhileOnGrad
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Why the hell do you care about the political ideologies of the developers of your open source software?
Really shouldn't, but the developers work with admins to shape some of the largest spaces on Lemmy, which therefore impacts what new users see, which therefore impacts the potential growth of the platform
To your point, the correct action is to just make your own instance and federate appropriately, but it is fair to say the core developers have expressed activist opinions that not everyone might agree with.
Ultimately it's their house, we are just visiting
Edit woah just noticed how old this thread is. Sorry for Necro.
As you say, though, the developers have given us the tools with which to create our own houses. Why do you say it's their house?
I mean regarding the largest, admin-coredev supported instances