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What platform? lemmy.ml? You're free to not use it if you disagree with how it's moderated.
Or are their political beliefs part of Lemmy, the software?
The beauty of OSS is that you can change whatever you disagree with. The beauty of federated software is that you're free to use any instance you _do_ agree with.
In any case, this is not something the authors should be vilified for. Stop it.
Yes, and I urge everyone reading this thread to also not use it. I'm telling them why they should opt not to use it.
I disagree, and I disagree to the extent that I think it would be counterproductive for anyone who believes in open source or freedom of speech to go use an instance run by people who clearly hold positions counter to those values.
Because at the end of the day you don't trust people who support authoritarian censorship with the stack that you try to speak freely on.
Maybe you didn't read it, so I'll reproduce a part of it here:
> As you can see we are not a faceless corporation that is accomodating to everyone. We are individuals with our own opinions. If you disagree with these, it is no problem! You can still freely use the Lemmy software on different instances. If you host your own instance, we have no control over it at all and are unable to censor what users say. For more details read the documentation on censorship resistance. In practice, the instance list already contains various instances whose content would be banned from lemmy.ml immediately.
Whatever disagreement you have with the developers, it has no relevance to the software.
I hope you realize the harm that comments like yours do to the adoption of software that benefits society. You're doing more harm than whatever you blame these developers for.
Unless you have a reason to tell me that their support for a country which actively and happily censors people and the ideals which allow that censorship to happen is not relevant, you aren't making a solid point here.
This isn't just a cute little disagreement of opinion that you can brush over.
And you cannot disconnect the developers from the software. They are very connected in the developers still have a lot of influence over it, even if it's open source.
I've said it elsewhere in this thread, but unless you want to audit the whole network stack, maintain that software going forward, and somehow totally disconnect the name Lemmy from the people who wrote the software, you're empowering them by using it.
And while China does not support free speech within their country, sure they would be ecstatic to have the opportunity to own run or maintain or have people friendly to them owning running and maintaining software that other countries use to have speech within themselves.
It would be very foolish to give them that ability.