I’m with you on dunking on Nutomic for the transphobia and COVID denial, but if you think Rimu is to his left (especially if you’re citing his refusal to wear a mask as a red line; I admit I don’t know if Rimu is a plague rat, but you’re asking them to be correct about something very few people are correct about) get ready to be disappointed because there’s a high chance every single piece of software you use is written by people who have way worse opinions. And unlike Lemmy, Rimu actually puts their opinions into the code. Unless you know Rimu personally and know that they’re correct about everything…
No, I don’t think he’s to the left of Nutomic, which makes my reaction to his faults all the more violent because I expect better of him. And saying I know Rimu personally would be an exaggeration (else, I would have known about his crass accusations of organ farming), but I know enough about him to believe he’s not a plague rat or a transphobe. By itself, that was enough to make me see Piefed as a good alternative to Lemmy.
I can sympathize with what you’re saying, but I don’t quite understand how Nutomic being wrong about trans people and COVID is completely unacceptable when those are things the vast majority of the world’s population are wrong about, but Rimu gets a pass for believing anti-Chinese propaganda that the vast majority of people aren’t racist enough to even entertain being true. Maybe transphobia and COVID denial makes you unsafe in a way that sinophobia doesn’t, but Lemmy has some of the best established trans and COVID conscious communities on the English internet outside of Reddit, while piefed is actively making it harder to engage with those communities. Is the juice worth the squeeze?
I’m with you on dunking on Nutomic for the transphobia and COVID denial, but if you think Rimu is to his left (especially if you’re citing his refusal to wear a mask as a red line; I admit I don’t know if Rimu is a plague rat, but you’re asking them to be correct about something very few people are correct about) get ready to be disappointed because there’s a high chance every single piece of software you use is written by people who have way worse opinions. And unlike Lemmy, Rimu actually puts their opinions into the code. Unless you know Rimu personally and know that they’re correct about everything…
No, I don’t think he’s to the left of Nutomic, which makes my reaction to his faults all the more violent because I expect better of him. And saying I know Rimu personally would be an exaggeration (else, I would have known about his crass accusations of organ farming), but I know enough about him to believe he’s not a plague rat or a transphobe. By itself, that was enough to make me see Piefed as a good alternative to Lemmy.
I can sympathize with what you’re saying, but I don’t quite understand how Nutomic being wrong about trans people and COVID is completely unacceptable when those are things the vast majority of the world’s population are wrong about, but Rimu gets a pass for believing anti-Chinese propaganda that the vast majority of people aren’t racist enough to even entertain being true. Maybe transphobia and COVID denial makes you unsafe in a way that sinophobia doesn’t, but Lemmy has some of the best established trans and COVID conscious communities on the English internet outside of Reddit, while piefed is actively making it harder to engage with those communities. Is the juice worth the squeeze?