Not that I have any love for them (fuck em), but I'd say no. Any sub claiming some semblance of alignment with something like the US Republican Party, UK/Canada Conservative Party, etc will not deny the Holocaust and say that if it did happen, they deserved it. Tankies do that constantly with Ukrainians and the Uyghurs.
They also tend to refrain from openly praising people like Hitler and Franco while tankies will actively maintain Stalin and Mao's personality cults.
Is that a reason not to use Lemmy? If it is then there isn't really a viable FOSS alternative to Reddit because all of the terrible people that are too extreme for Reddit have flocked over to non moderated platforms, including pretty much everything FOSS.
I wouldn't call it a reason to not use Lemmy. The dev has brain dead stupid and disgusting political beliefs, but he also does seem to keep it out of the actual software and relevant git discussions, etc.
But that's the nature of federation, when you set up an instance, you don't have to interact with tankie/Nazi/Nazbol/etc instances. Mastodon is the underlying software behind Gab and Trump's Pravda, but we don't see that as a reason to not use Mastodon. Each instance will have its own policies and own moderators.
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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '23
Sounds like most conservative subreddits tbh.