Lemmy has had a huge bias towards seize-the-means-of-production socialism from day 1, which is very important in understanding why it's different from other reddit clones, and why it has unique features and anti-features. The political orientation is not incidental, it's vital, and I'm glad to see it hasn't completely died from the sudden influx of reddit-natives when the API thing happened.

[–] planish@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Lemmy just is seizing the means of production of threaded forums and link aggregators. Means sized! We can all go home.

[–] Yurisho@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

eh... so long as lemmy does not allow server maintainers a means of monitezation I don't see how lemmy could support growing over a certain size... sorry.

[–] planish@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I don't think anything stops instances from e.g. running ads, or even charging subscription fees. The code is AGPL, and AGPL permits commercial use.

[–] archomrade@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

^This guy supports planned economies^

[–] greywolf0x1@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I don't see how lemmy could support growing over a certain size... sorry.

Good enough. We don't need sleazy capitalists on here, the devs and server maintainers hake put and are still putting a huge amount of their time into this platform, totally unpaid. The least the rest of us can do is contribute as much as we can as our numbers grow.

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