• Nora@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    What is raddle.me? On the surface it looks like a reddit look alike website. Is it not federated? If so, eww.

    Is there like some old drama between Lemmy and raddle?(I’m new here forgive me.)

    • Bloops@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      It’s a non-federated (but I think open source) reddit clone run by an extremely online anarchist clique. It getting some advertisement is for the better I think. The anti-communist left will go there and either stay, or be driven away after getting banned by their admin for not being ideologically pure enough.

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        1 year ago

        Seems kind of Ironic that some anarchists would like to be there considering it’s not federated. Federation is way more anarchic than a single instance run by an overbearing admin.

        I’ve been loving the federation so far, the concept is so awesome because its just so obviously how things should work.

        • MinekPo1 [She/Her]@lemmygrad.ml
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          1 year ago

          Counter point: if a website was not designed & developed with federation in mind, it is very difficult to add it.

          Intact, this is reflected by what the developers of Postmill (the software raddle is using and developing) say:

          there are not, unless someone steps up to the table and meticulously plans how federation support would be implemented - allcatsarebeautiful (main dev AFAIK)

          At the end of the day, many people just want a safe space and don’t care that much about the details. And the mods on raddle have opinions that sound safe to many users.

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      1 year ago

      I don’t know about drama between raddle and lemmy, but just yesterday the raddle admin started stirring shit in a hexbear thread.

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      1 year ago

      I’m sure someone has more info, but raddle is populated very heavily with an anarchist presence. So clearly they see us as “evil red fash tankies”