Turns out it takes money or a big corporation to stick to your work when you’re essentially a public figure representing a widely used platform. Can’t make an anonymous alt for politics and step down from any positions of power without those.
Turns out it takes money or a big corporation to stick to your work when you’re essentially a public figure representing a widely used platform. Can’t make an anonymous alt for politics and step down from any positions of power without those.
I’m 100% with you on the need to separate personal and professional, which is also what I do outside Lemmy. I don’t even touch politics in some of those spaces. We may have the most informed positions that even make sense to the majority, but those discussions always lead to division, which is not needed in communities based around specific subjects or interests.
Yeah. I didn’t take sides on any of this because Rimu and others kind of put themselves in it. I understand the actions Rimu took afterwards even if I disagree with them. Even if I think a lot of the drama against him was astroturfed. It was all very human and predictable. Any of us are capable of it and likely have been. It’s the sort of thing that teaches you to separate private and professional.
In case you were not aware, Rimu agreed with you and already did exactly this two weeks ago. https://piefed.social/c/piefed_meta/p/2054071/what-worked-at-100-users-broke-at-5000