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How does (or should) one respond to “Lemmy = tankies” (lib.lgbt)
submitted 1 year ago by Veraticus@lib.lgbt to c/chat@beehaw.org
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I shared my fly.io Lemmy project to Hacker News and one of the first responses was “Lemmy is for tankies.”

This isn’t the first time I’d heard this either. In leaving Reddit and researching alternatives I’d heard it a fair amount.

I think it’s basically untrue; beehaw doesn’t even federate with the big tankie servers. But that seems to require some understanding of what Lemmy actually is.

So… what’s the best way to talk about it and/or get around this optics issue?

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[-] Lionir@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I think personally that we should just give it time. We don't need to attract everyone and we've already got a lot of work to do.

I personally believe that what we have today is enough to serve as a battery for organic, natural growth through word of mouth. We just need to keep going and convince people through genuine effort that we can do better as a platform.

[-] ABoxOfNeurons@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

"Hacker News is for pedophiles."

[-] jhoward@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

The solution to pollution is dilution. Every sane user and instance weakens the grasp of the insane.

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