This is an opportunity for any users, server admins, or interested third parties to ask anything they’d like to @[email protected] and I about Lemmy. This includes its development and future, as well as wider issues relevant to the social media landscape today.
Note: This will be the thread tmrw, so you can use this thread to ask and vote on questions beforehand.
Why did you choose to name your social media system after a person who owned the largest personal collection of Nazi memorabilia in the world for years leading up until his death. Lemmy was an entire piece of shit human being. Fuck Lemmy.
Lemmy’s obsession with nazi iconography was cringe, but I think you’d have to stretch things to say he was a racist, given his staunch and vocal anti-racist stances.
Also liking someone’s art doesn’t mean you have to subscribe to all of their ideological views, just as you are using lemmy right now yet I greatly doubt you agree with my stances.
From Wikipedia*: In a 2020 post, Lemmy’s co-creator Dessalines wrote about the origin of the name Lemmy. “It was nameless for a long time, but I wanted to keep with the fediverse tradition of naming projects after animals. I was playing that old-school game Lemmings, and Lemmy (from Motorhead) had passed away that week, and we held a few polls for names, and I went with that.”[8]
(*Accuracy not guaranteed)
Accuracy is guaranteed though, it’s from this post.
I have a feeling this isn’t federating properly.
Oh, last time i checked the criticism was because of communism but ok
Haters gonna hate
I think you need to go for a walk in nature friend.
https://www.loudersound.com/news/stop-calling-lemmy-kilmister-a-nazi-says-motorheads-phil-campbell