This was a mobile app that stalled out last year and was officially archived in February. The only reason given is “political differences” and I’m not really sure what that means.
I’m interested in building a cross platform app (Android and Linux Mobile, maybe iOS), and am deciding on tech stack. However, before I get too deep in the weeds, I’d like a bit more information about the reasons this app was discontinued since I’d really rather not run into the same problem.
If anyone has any input, please let me know. Thanks!
Several folks hold the opinion (here’s a recent one) that the Lemmy devs, acting as primary moderators for the lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml instances, have ignored moderation of pro-CCP, pro-communist discussion threads on those instances. This ends up being detrimental for Lemmy’s reputation overall, as:
- Those instances have some of the highest membership numbers, and as word-of-mouth spreads will mean a lot of newcomers to Lemmy will land into those large instances
- If the devs don’t moderate their instances a certain way, what are their motives that might bleed into the development direction that Lemmy itself will take? e.g. The devs’ opinion on how to implement a slur filter
My own personal opinion here is that as long as the devs aren’t building anything malicious or overly political into Lemmy, I don’t really care what their personal beliefs are. I work with devs all the time that have different ideological or political beliefs, that doesn’t change the quality of the code. Open-source software can be forked and modified if the Lemmy devs cross the line, and by design each instance can run their own version of the underlying software. How the Lemmy devs moderate their instances is only a reflection of their ability to act as effective moderators, which is why (again, by design) choosing your “home” instance is the most important aspect of engaging on Lemmy and the wider Fediverse.
I got banned for this view, somwwhere, yesterday. We live in wacky times
Agreed. The protocol (ActivityPub) and AFAIK the lemmy platform code itself is ‘neutral’ to such political issues. If a particular instance appears to have a distasteful agenda, we can each decide to move to another instance, or ignore it by filtering out those communities/users with which we don’t want to interact.
I don’t know the details but from what I heard the developer was bothered that Lemmy was either “too communist” or “not communist enough”. I can’t remember which one it was and no guarantee that it’s really true (it’s just hearsay and I might be mistaken).
Captain’s log, stardate 41153.7: We’ve left planet Lemmy 17. It was… too communist or… not communist enough. I… can’t remember which. The search continues for a… planet… whose communism… is just right.
Goldilocks, take us deeper into the Fediverse. It must… be out there somewhere.
I love this
I dunno my brain is weird. I read your comment and it just happened.
I can only speculate with zero evidence, but it’s possible that the creator has strong feelings about communism, neo-nazis, or reddit, and others involved have other stances.
I don’t think the app or Lemmy itself was archived due to technical reasons though, it seemed to work decently enough.
This explains a lot. I’m new to Lemmy and was taking a look on the Google Play store for any apps. Ended up downloading Lemmur and couldn’t find any communities or content. Now I know why! 😳
(Writing this from Jerboa for Lemmy, in case any lurkers out there are also looking for an app. It’s working pretty well overall.)
Yup, Jerboa works well, and I actually work on it to some capacity.
I was just looking around for projects that I could turn into a “desktop” app (I want it for a Linux phone and my Steam Deck), and it seemed promising and wondered about the notice on the GitHub page.
For now, I’m content helping out with Jerboa, at least until another high quality competitor comes along.
Lemmy dev(s?) are pro-CCP which has driven some people away from the platform and others to unaffiliated instances.
So that’s why Lemmur doesn’t work. They should really pull it from the play store
Yup. It’s completely borked.