Title of the (concerning) thread on their community forum, not voluntary clickbait. Came across the thread thanks to a toot by @Khrys@mamot.fr (French speaking)

The gist of the issue raised by OP is that framework sponsors and promotes projects lead by known toxic and racists people (DHH among them).

I agree with the point made by the OP :

The “big tent” argument works fine if everyone plays by some basic civil rules of understanding. Stuff like code of conducts, moderation, anti-racism, surely those things we agree on? A big tent won’t work if you let in people that want to exterminate the others.

I’m disappointed in framework’s answer so far

    • Slotos@feddit.nl
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      35 minutes ago

      A naive answer:

      Replace “Lemmy” with a “Nazi manufactured gun”.

      A less naive answer:

      Consider various meanings “use” takes in your question and decide accordingly.

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      Tankies, afaik, are just delusional. Do they support murder of non-whites?

      And uh…the fact that defederating the tankies is a regular topic of conversation here is 100000000x better than the big tent response.

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      Not the same thing. Equating the far left and the far right is nonsensical, as horseshoe theory isn’t a real thing. Giving room for such thought only strengthens extreme right positions and is exclusively used to either distract from or downplay far right commentary or elevate liberal/centrist thought as the only acceptable path. It’s interestingly never used by people from the far left themselves.

      Your’s either an ignorant take or one with an agenda, which is it?

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      18 hours ago

      No we use Lemmy and make fun of the Tankies as revenge

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      Certainly a tough question. Use Lemmy, okay, but would you send financial contributions to said Tankie? I wouldn’t, and I would judge someone that did. I don’t think anyone can be expected to evaluate the moral virtues of the developer for every technology they use. That’s a supply chain nightmare. But, given the small number of people we directly sponsor, maybe then it’s appropriate to have some standards?

      As a non-US citizen, I actually consider /any/ American company that has not moved to be complicit in fascism. At the same time, I havn’t completely stopped patronizing American companies, so I’m not living up to my own standard. I suspect everyone is a little hypocritical.

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        As a non-US citizen, I actually consider /any/ American company that has not moved to be complicit in fascism.

        This is an absolutely insane position to take.

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        It’s literally impossible to use the internet (or even computers?) without patronizing American companies, at least indirectly.

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        It’s certainly not feasible for every company to leave America, but I wouldn’t argue with a boycott of American goods and services on general - and I’m saying this as an American citizen who’s not exactly thrilled about this mess, either.

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        16 hours ago

        It is is you support lemmy’s development which for a foss platform its expected users do

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          But not required. If I do not morally support the developer I can instead choose to financially support individual instances, or other projects like Piefed or mbin.

          My point here is that comparing this situation to using Lemmy is a bad comparison. Supporting Framework is pretty much exclusively via financial support, the same is not true for Lemmy.

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            Doesn’t seem clear cut at all after reading the whole thread. You support one thing who’s creator has questionable views but not the other. The main difference seems to be that you like one and not the other.

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              The main difference is that fascism and racism are fundamentally destructive ideologies/traits, while tankie is just a derogatory term for folks on the far left used by people that think extreme left and extreme right are the same kind if evil. It’s a display of arrogant ignorance, congratulations.

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      It’s a significant factor for sure. However, this year Reddit has accelerated its enshittification since the API schism and is far too risky to continue use anyway. The only viable alternative to Lemmy that I see is Mastodon and I never really got into the Twitter format.