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I have seen that the lemmy.ml mods will openly ban discussion about the CCP. I am wondering if the sh.itjust.works team allows criticism of government bodies, while still banning racism.

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[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Couldn't someone just fork it and update current servers with that fork and still keep all of the data though? It should still just work the same but just not be from a codebase controlled by the founders

[–] carbon_based@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'd think if they would resist a "global citizen" approach in favour of the now de-facto "hegemonic nations" approach, that would be a good reason for offering such a fork. ... It could quickly supersede the "old Lemmy" when people start to realise that the new system allows migration and resilience against domain-takedowns. :-)
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[–] CowsLookLikeMaps@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's right. It's a legitimate solution if the lead dev drives it into the ground. I don't think lack of developers to fork or maintain it would be an issue. The only barrier I see is adoption of yet another platform. So in my mind, there's always an option to just separate if Lemmy turns into one big tankie brigade. But forking is still a PITA and not ideal.

[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don't think using a fork would separate it into another platform. It would still be Lemmy. They would only need to separate of their code bases change so drastically between the two that going to other instances from the forked one starts breaking things. And even then workarounds could then be put in the former version so everything still plays nice.