That only looks bad because of the community that is using Lemmy and abusing the defederate feature. The software itself is sort of okay. It's bad because it looks ugly as shit.
Freedom-loving people can still flock ActivityPub and have their own servers that keep on federating with each other. It's just that people try it individually and get discouraged by all the blocks one by one. First was Exploding Heads, more recently Dig Deeper. If servers like those form their own network / federation it can be good.
The problem with Lemmy is that devs are tankies - fans of authoritarian countries like China. So one feels weird when promoting Lemmy when the flagship instance is full of Chinese propaganda, and any attempt to debunk it is being deleted by mods (which are Lemmy devs).
That's why people started PieFed and Kbin/Mbin, they can federate with Lemmy instances if needed.
Anyway this is all not to say NLNet are bad or something, just a bit of context.
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They were funding Lemmy among other projects.
That only looks bad because of the community that is using Lemmy and abusing the defederate feature. The software itself is sort of okay. It's bad because it looks ugly as shit.
Freedom-loving people can still flock ActivityPub and have their own servers that keep on federating with each other. It's just that people try it individually and get discouraged by all the blocks one by one. First was Exploding Heads, more recently Dig Deeper. If servers like those form their own network / federation it can be good.
The problem with Lemmy is that devs are tankies - fans of authoritarian countries like China. So one feels weird when promoting Lemmy when the flagship instance is full of Chinese propaganda, and any attempt to debunk it is being deleted by mods (which are Lemmy devs).
That's why people started PieFed and Kbin/Mbin, they can federate with Lemmy instances if needed.
Anyway this is all not to say NLNet are bad or something, just a bit of context.