• goat@sh.itjust.worksOPM
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      8 months ago

      except they make decisions that affect the entirety of lemmy, such as introducing Hexbear into the fediverse

      • loutr@sh.itjust.works
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        8 months ago

        How do you mean? Lemmy is open source, anyone can create an instance, they don’t need the developers permission… And other instances are free to defederate from them.

      • kirk781@lemm.ee
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        8 months ago

        Ah, so I am not the only one suffering from posts from that instance. Hexbear was so bad I had to block that instance from appearing in my feed.

      • mvirts@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        Yeah … But that power is only in their hands because the rest of us are complacent, like for me I don’t think I have the time to take over lemmy development :/

      • Antik 👾@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        How? Hexbear decided to make their fork compatible with Lemmy again and to federate. And as you know plenty of instances defederated with hexbear since.

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      8 months ago

      Exactly, we’d have no technology if we refused to use things that have been created from less than moral beginnings

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        Indeed. Like a ton of modern medicine is based upon the findings of Nazi scientists torturing Jews and others.

        It is bad that it happened, but we wouldn’t be saving so many lives if we denied the information.

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          That’s a common misconception. Nazi scientists were surprisingly incompetent, like they didn’t document shit, no control or even reason for doing what they did. Most of it seemed to exist just to torture people and the results were just useless. Because of how shit they were as scientists they didn’t even learn about torture.

          Oh and another shining example was when Nazies got flat earthers in their rocketry department who did not account for the curvature of the earth thus missing every time at long range. Also any evidence that counteracted their science was called Jewish science and discarded.