Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development

Re:Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets ... by mcintyre1994 on Sunday June 28, 2020 @05:32AM (#23667665)

True, but the things about bigotry and harassment seem more likely to apply to the site, unless big projects get weirdly abusive issues or PRs. And it is linked from rule 1 on the website, I’m guessing the website rules isn’t referring to rules for contributing. I think maybe it’s both. I certainly don’t get the impression they want to be a Voat style ‘Reddit for after you’re banned’, regardless.

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Re:Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets ... by luckylion on Sunday June 28, 2020 @06:03AM (#23667768)

I understood the general goal the same way.

As for CoC: I believe it's more of a signalling act than a reaction to past issues. Just like the KKK would add "no race mixing" to the rules, a left wing open source project needs to signal to their in group, and their main way of doing that is to say "no harassment based on [some criteria]".

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Re:Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets ... by brnt on Sunday June 28, 2020 @08:34AM (#23668311)

"No harassment" qualifies as left wing signalling now?

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Re:Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets ... by luckylion on Sunday June 28, 2020 @09:46AM (#23668651)

Adding a code of conduct of that specific kind ("no being mean about weight" etc) not as a reaction to actual issues you've faced, but from the get go? Yeah, and it's a reliable signal as well. Inclusivity is one of the progressive core tenets.

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Re:Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets ... by brnt on Sunday June 28, 2020 @10:19AM (#23668840)

Inclusivity is core to democracy, and to call that progressive in 2020... Its just doing your due diligence in the face of software dev now being done by an ever diverse population. Any association will have house rules, often with very similar stipulations, and now software projects are doing the same, such that the wheel doesn't have to be reinvented.

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Re:Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets ... by luckylion on Sunday June 28, 2020 @11:32AM (#23669437)

No, it's really not. Democracy can function just fine without everybody being included everywhere.

I don't have an issue with it if anyone finds inclusivity to be the most important issue, but it is a progressive policy, not "core to democracy". Please stop moralizing your personal political convictions. No, you're not a good person because of random political beliefs you happen to have, no, people who don't share those beliefs are not bad persons, and no, democracy does not rely on everyone sharing your beliefs.

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Re:Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets ... by brnt on Sunday June 28, 2020 @11:51AM (#23669575)

It can function that way, its however no democracy but aristocracy. You could pick up a book on this subject to brush up your knowledge.

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Re:Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets ... by sobani on Monday June 29, 2020 @06:11AM (#23676087)

Ancient Athens had a democracy. It also had slavery. And of course women are more like children than full adults, so they're weren't allowed to vote too.

Democracy does not require Universal Suffrage.

Also fun quote from Wikipedia: In its original 19th-century usage by reformers in Britain, universal suffrage was understood to mean only universal manhood suffrage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_suffrage

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Re:Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets ... by dx87 on Sunday June 28, 2020 @09:42AM (#23668629)

"No harassment based on certain criteria". The old FreeBSD code of conduct is a good example. Instead of having a blanket ban on harassment, it listed specific criteria that you couldn't harass someone about.

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Re:Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets ... by brnt on Sunday June 28, 2020 @10:20AM (#23668855)

You probably saw the brackets in the quote. I imagine those were added by the poster.

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