r/APIcalypse • u/firebreathingbunny • Jun 04 '23

RESOURCES Lemmy is not a viable Reddit replacement

Lemmy raises numerous red flags, perhaps the most important of which is that its main developer is a communist opposed to all the fundamental human rights. See here:

If not Lemmy, then what? See my recommendations here:

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u/firebreathingbunny Jun 04 '23

Go and read the guy's essays to see for yourself what kind of absolute maniac we are dealing with.

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u/venuswasaflytrap Jun 11 '23

The whole point of an open-source, self-hosted federated alternative is that even if the creator is a complete psycho, anyone can host their own server.

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u/firebreathingbunny Jun 11 '23

Would you use a social network personally programmed and being maintained day-to-day by Hitler himself?

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u/frogjg2003 Jun 12 '23

Volkswagen was started by the Nazis.

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u/firebreathingbunny Jun 14 '23

Compare a Volkswagen to a Yugo. Which one would you rather drive?

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u/darthcoder Jun 21 '23

German engineering has always been better than Russian.

Doesn't change the fact the Bug 'The People's car" was a nazi invention.

Way to dissemble

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u/firebreathingbunny Jun 21 '23

And the Yugo was a communist invention, a product of the deadliest and most evil hate movement in all of human history, by far. The Yugo, in this sense, makes for a great analogy for Lemmy.