Today the first of Feb is Global Switch day, Spread awareness of the Fediverse in your communities.

  • goferking (he/him)English
    41·
    3 days ago

    I’d argue that it is more because so many people have hate comms and groups set up specifically to target the lemmy devs. Idk why people hate Des so much

    • Warl0k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      3 days ago

      Theee are hate comms for the lemmy devs? I’ve failed run across them, huh.

      • goferking (he/him)English
        31·
        18 hours ago

        There’s even a user who manually mirrors stuff posted on ml because they hate the devs that much

          • goferking (he/him)English
            21·
            18 hours ago

            There are both comms that are hostile towards the devs and a specific user who’s calling is reposting content AND attacking the lemmy devs

            • Warl0k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
              23·
              17 hours ago

              (I don’t want to come across like I’m nitpicking because no, to be clear I’m genuinely interested in this.)

              That many communities are hostile to the devs shouldn’t be surprising, because unfortunately the lemmy devs are openly bigoted and most communities don’t like that. And that’s ignoring how Des is also a genocide denier and dismisses the human rights abuses of china while championing authoritarians (ex: their profile banner is currently an image of Mao), things many communities explicitly do not allow.

              Without knowing which user you’re referring to I can’t speak to the scope of what they’re doing, but a single user isn’t exactly evidence of hate groups or hate communities specifically set up to target the lemmy devs. That’s just reprehensible people being criticized, and then one potentially freak user taking it beyond what is reasonable.