• Bazell@lemmy.zip
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    1 month ago

    Not each lemmy instance has political admins. It is like a room full of different people, among which there are science groups too.

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      1 month ago

      You don’t seem to understand.

      The guy who develops the software that runs on all the instances has strongly held political and societal views which are incompatible with mine.

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        I am aware of it. But his software is being used by other people to create instances that don’t support his political and social views. I find it rather amusing.

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          You’re welcome to be amused.

          Lemmy aside, if a developer was a fascist, or paedophile, or murderer, would you use their software?

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            So you hold that ReiserFS instantly became evil when Hans Reiser murdered his wife, even-though ReiserFS was a filesystem, developed by multiple people … too?

            There is a Principle, which the US Marines hold to:

            nazis made more-protective helmets for their troops?

            Steal the design, don’t accept their doctrine.

            Someone made a better truck than we did?

            Steal the design, don’t accept their doctrine.

            That’s an excellent paradigm: differentiate between the technology vs the ideology.

            People who hold that ideology is the whole of reality … do profoundly-idiotic things like insist “you can’t impliment efficiency, because the last person who pushed it was a nazi”.

            Using an ideologue’s software to displace ideology, absolutely is valid use.

            Same with any technology, like the barter-replacement called “money”: some uses are evil, others good, & some turn it into a religion, & many insist that because some make it a religion, therefore it “inherently” is a religion, & no other relationship with it could ever be valid…

            Same with the technology of a “business”, by incorporating it as a Public Benefit Company, & operating it that way, even-though other corporations are operating as anti-benefit/anti-public companies.

            The technology is itself, the origin is itself: they are independently themselves.

            As Torvalds identified, once you release something in GPL-2, the community can’t have it taken-away from them: it’s theirs.

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            If this is a good software(that doesn’t have spying or security flaws) and they give it for free, then yes. Why not? Person may be a garbage but their work can be good.

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              Obviously, because using their software is tacit or implied support for that person.

              How many millions of people would say they “support” mozilla when really the only support they provide is using the free software.

              A person’s work is quite obviously tainted by their beliefs.

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                In the minds of the politically-motivated, maybe.

                Not all minds are politically-motivated.

                The blunt fact that people are multidimensional, & some are high-integrity-in-work while being low-integrity-in-business, or are excellent-woodworkers-while-being-family-abusers … what a person is in 1 dimension oft has nothing to do with what they are in another.

                Ideologues who insist otherwise are living within their ideology, not within actuality.

                Spiders may creep many out, while their silk is one of the most astonishingly-awesome materials known.

                their silk doesn’t itself creep people out…

                but maybe ideologues hold that it has to be creepy because to them spiders themselves are creepy…

                Cult-“thinking”.

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                  What is with the

                  [Paragraphs of weird rambling]

                  [Weird emoji thing sign off every single comment]

                  Format? Is this a bit account?

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                    This is a wild-ass guess, as I’m no religious scholar, but Paragone’s profile pic appears to be a statue of The Buddha, the emoji may represent the way Buddhists hold their hands together when bowing.