It's best summed up by the comment I'll link at the bottom of this comment [1]. Notable details include: - The link is to Raddle, an anarchist community (which

It's best summed up by the comment I'll link at the bottom of this comment [1]. Notable details include: - The link is to Raddle, an anarchist community (which uses Postmill). - The Lemmy dev has personal beef with Ziq, a prominent and well-respected voice in the global anarchist community, and the administrator of the Raddle website. - Lemmy dev's reasons for creating Lemmy were twofold: he (and others) was banned on Reddit for hate speech or whatever you want to call it, and he knew he wouldn't be accepted on Raddle because it's a good community (or in his words, Raddle is run by "anti-tankie scum"). - When Lemmy went live, he immediately banned people for speaking against the homophobia of Stalin, Putin, and Xi - Lemmy dev is specifically a member of the LaRouche movement, which according to Wikipedia "has been referred to variously as Marxist, fascist, anti-Semitic, a political cult, a personality cult, and a criminal enterprise ... a far-right political movement ... one of the best private intelligence services in the world ... one of the strangest political groups in American history" I know HN isn't supposed to be all political, but this is also a security and user-safety issue. Hope I'm not crossing the line into soapboxing here. - [1] https://raddle.me/f/lobby/155371/-/comment/276944 https://raddle.me/f/lobby/155371/-/comment/276944