As lemmy is a Foss and privacy respecting platform built on that ethics and morals it is only right the clients following those morals should be the most promoted and used. In the past you may have needed proprietry apps or tools but the need is no more as more foss apps and tools that can cater to everyones taste for all platforms are available now ( see the megathread ) there is no need to use proprietry apps which are privacy nightmares and tracks, pushes ads. etc and also if a proprietry app dev decides to collect data there is no wayto know or if they close development the app is gone but with foss someone will fork it . In the past this sub has allowed posts about proprietry apps and tools those posts will stay as it is and you can interact with it but posting any new one will lead to warning and then ban this decision was made as a community by conducting a poll.
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The poll was improperly conducted and way too short for users to adequately find in time. This announcement is the first I’m hearing about this discussion or poll at all.
I think this might be jumping the gun. Also, it’s poor form, imo, to change the focus of a community after it’s been established. It would make more sense to create /c/lemmyfossapps or something similar. Taking a broadly-focused community and narrowing it down after people have already joined feels wrong.
Those are my two cents, since I never got a chance to respond to the poll, which allegedly already had a pretty narrow margin.
Definitely agree.
The poll has been restored in the meantime, but I’m not sure if that federates with Kbin
I can confirm from kbin to the degree it matters the original poll post is listed as “deleted_by_author” in my comments page, manually opening the URL for the page shows no comments, only the total number of favorites and reduces (possibly only the reduces from kbin specifically as the split shown is 71 up/2 down which is much different than the listed number of down in other comments)