I know the lemmygrad.ml instance claims to be Marxist but I don’t think they’re generally taken that seriously (and not to be confused with lemmy.ml) - is that what you’re confusing? Apart from that, the federal nature of Lemmy means it doesn’t really matter what the creator’s political beliefs are.
I think people are concerned because both lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml are operated by the Lemmy developers. At a minimum, that means I’d prefer to avoid communities based on lemmy.ml and favor servers with less spicy admins.
There is, however a popular idea that software tends to reflect the values of its authors. Mastodon seems to be “Twitter for nice people” or thereabouts. If Lemmy is “Reddit for militant communists”, that’s a problem for attracting an audience beyond militant communists because most people don’t want to talk to them.
I know the lemmygrad.ml instance claims to be Marxist but I don’t think they’re generally taken that seriously (and not to be confused with lemmy.ml) - is that what you’re confusing? Apart from that, the federal nature of Lemmy means it doesn’t really matter what the creator’s political beliefs are.
I think people are concerned because both lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml are operated by the Lemmy developers. At a minimum, that means I’d prefer to avoid communities based on lemmy.ml and favor servers with less spicy admins.
There is, however a popular idea that software tends to reflect the values of its authors. Mastodon seems to be “Twitter for nice people” or thereabouts. If Lemmy is “Reddit for militant communists”, that’s a problem for attracting an audience beyond militant communists because most people don’t want to talk to them.