Rimu recently started a new rant thread. I copied the response of the person they had targeted and in less than a minute Rimu had deleted the comment.
This is the comment Rimu did not want people being able to see: https://feddit.uk/post/53824748/26875911
This is the thread I shared it on: https://feddit.uk/post/53824747
This isn’t whataboutism. Someone asked why people still use Piefed, and for a fair number of people, that is the reason. I personally only noticed the Piefed controversies bubbling up recently. The problems with the Lemmy devs have been known for years (at least to me). And some people may see what Piefed devs do as the lesser evil, whether you agree with it or not.
It’s definitely whataboutism.
I asked why people use piefed despite the drama, Eldritch’s argument was that lemmy devs are bad, and hey, aren’t all developers kinda bad?
That’s like if I asked why some people like shit on their chest and they said “some of us don’t like getting pissed on.”
Okay.
So why do you use Lemmy despite the drama?
Preference. I tried piefed and didn’t like it. I like lemmy. Lemmy’s devs are more objective when it comes to their platform than Rimu is. The way the devs run their home instance doesn’t bother me too much. There is no equivalent to .today, in terms of no blocked instances and a viewable modlog, on piefed.
Your assessment of the Piefed’s Devs’ actions being worse than those by the Lemmy devs is a subjective one. That’s precisely the point: one could argue that what Lemmy devs do is worse than what Piefed’s devs do. And to be fair, not everyone knows about every alternative (although I will use the moment to shoutout Mbin, which, as far as I know, hasn’t had any such issues - at least not yet).
I never assessed such a thing.
Comparing one thing to shit and the other to piss is indirectly an assessment as to which is worse. I may be going out on a limb here but I’m pretty sure the vast majority of people (without a scat fetish) find shit worse than piss.
Whataboutism would be using the problems with the Lemmy devs to distract from or justify what the Piefed devs do. If someone says Piefed devs are doing A but Lemmy devs are doing B which I find is worse, so I would rather go with Piefed, that’s not whataboutism, that’s chosing the lesser of two evils.
It depends on what you’re into, what you’re wearing, and the ambient temperature.
https://theconversation.com/whataboutism-what-it-is-and-why-its-such-a-popular-tactic-in-arguments-182911