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[โ€“] Cargon@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The free software movement is actually inherently political. Much of modern digital infrastructure is built using tools / software that embodies collectivist ideologies. I would be very surprised if the Lemmy developers even claimed that they created Lemmy in some sort of apolitical clean room (not that it is even possible).

[โ€“] oce@jlai.lu 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Any public action can be considered politics and I'm not asking for complete neutrality. The free software movement has freedom of the user in it's core philosophy. This is not necessarily the case of some radical left movements. So I'm hoping that the free software philosophy prevrails in the case of Lemmy's development.