I’ll paste here what I wrote on reddit a few days ago about the same topic

I think it’s important to distinguish Lemmy as a software from Lemmy as an implementation (servers).

The software is opensource, noone “owns” that kind of software, many people contribute to it, anyone can fork it, modify it, and setup their own servers with it, regardless of the belief of the one who started the project.

Now, telling people to avoid the “main server”/“grad whatever” is fine, because those are the servers in which those “political views” are expressed.

But any instance of it? It doesn’t make sense, many new Lemmy servers are popping up because of redditors trying the platform, and surely people setting them up now have nothing to do with what the main devs believe.

You can’t put everyone in the same basket, it would be like saying that anyone having an iPhone is in favor of child labor, or that anyone eating Nutella is in favor of destroying the Amazon forest, or whatever other example you can think of products we consume daily that are detrimental to the health of our planet.

Heck even Reddit got investments from Tencent, a Chinese company, and we all know what the Chinese government thinks of human rights, yet we’re here using the product.

Where to draw the line is of course a personal matter, but again, it doesn’t do any good to “categorize” everyone based on the views of a few.

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Not to mention that kbin and lemmy are federated, they “talk” to each other, so if your only reason to choose kbin over lemmy is to avoid lemmy communities, you’re out of luck, you’ll see them all on kbin too.