this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2023
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I wouldn't worry too much about that. A lot of the beginning of Lemmy was making sure we fostered and attracted a community that held anti-racist principles.
All the biggest lemmy servers hold those principles, and pretty quickly block any "voat-like" instances that pop up, as has happened in the past few years. Eventually those instances stagnate and die off.
A similar thing happened with mastodon iirc, truth.social was trump's mastodon startup, and most of the fediverse blocked it very quickly.
Oh my god, WHAT. Truth Social is just a Mastodon instance? It makes sense that his people wouldn't bother doing any of their own coding, but it's still kinda wild.
I mean isnt that kinda the goal of mastodon? Everyone is free to make their own community and everyone else is free to zone them out if they dont like it. If anything I'd say it was a good proof of concept.
Great point, but it's still a hilarious marriage.
The beauty of the Fediverse is that it doesn't matter if it does. There could be instances like Voat/Poal, and there could be instances like pre-Digg-exodus Reddit, and if the divide is big enough the two sides will defederate from each other and won't communicate. This is a solved problem in the microblog side of the Fediverse (Mastodon/Pleroma/Misskey/etc), where there is a huge variety of instances. Sign up on an instance whose rules and moderation you prefer, and you'll be fine.