Post AWeN9it2GT0gPi5NqK by nvraemdonck@hci.social
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 (DIR) Post #AWeN9hN5tjrjiM8MPw by nvraemdonck@hci.social
       2023-06-13T13:04:17Z
       
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       It seems like #lemmygradml is down, one of the more controversial Lemmy instances that is primarily Tankie. @feditips among others warned for this instance https://mstdn.social/@feditips/106835057054633379
       
 (DIR) Post #AWeN9it2GT0gPi5NqK by nvraemdonck@hci.social
       2023-06-13T13:06:50Z
       
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       maybe Lemmygrad received a Reddit hug of death, or it was intentionally DDoS'ed?  a reflection: Problematic instances are not uncommon in the fediverse, that's what defederation is for. What's interesting is how Lemmy devs seem to be of the same 'ideology' as Lemmygrad, which leads to questions about how norms can be coded in software packages, and whether instances running on such software can (or should) be avoided
       
 (DIR) Post #AWeN9jkv286z6pIPpY by jbaert@mastodon.social
       2023-06-13T13:09:16Z
       
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       @nvraemdonck Oh that's unfortunate. The @feditips thread is a bit old, has a change occured in leadership at Lemmy dev, or is it still problematic? I was looking into reddit alternatives, and preferred the Lemmy interface over kbin, but reading this ... hmm
       
 (DIR) Post #AWeN9lexxEXR0wWgpU by nvraemdonck@hci.social
       2023-06-13T13:13:09Z
       
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       @jbaert @feditips feditips still stands by it most recently https://mstdn.social/@feditips/110476830253102884 I've not seen an official stance of Lemmy devs, but they seem to not have defederated from lemmygrad.ml https://lemmy.ml/instances
       
 (DIR) Post #AWeN9mIJaw0uyyw7A8 by ryan@rebased.io
       2023-06-13T13:37:51.740511Z
       
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       While it’s conceivable to me to imagine an exception, I don’t think that the ideology of developers is generally baked into the software they code. The Medium is the Message but in an esoteric way that has little to do with explicit political visions or even related unconscious biases. I agree with Alex Gleason when he said he would accept a pull request from Hitler if it improved the code; the same obviously goes for Stalin and Mao.