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Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft crashes into Moon (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft has crashed into the Moon after spinning into an uncontrolled orbit, officials say.

The unmanned craft was due to make a soft landing on the Moon's south pole, but failed after encountering issues as it moved into its pre-landing orbit.

It was Russia's first Moon mission in almost 50 years.

The spacecraft was scheduled to land on Monday to explore a part of the Moon which scientists think could hold frozen water and precious elements.

Roskosmos, Russia's state space corporation, said it lost contact with the Luna-25 shortly after running into difficulties.

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[+] [email protected] -12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Those communists are the ones who built the platform you're speaking on.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Not communists. (Also, most of them have never made a commit. They didn't do anything.)

Sure, the original developer runs Lemmygrad. Doesn't matter. The great thing about FOSS is that no one owns it. There have been many contributers, not just the first person. Also, anyone can fork it if things go bad. No one owns FOSS. You can use it and contribute to it, but you can't own it.

I don't care about their personal beliefs of any one of the contributers. As long as the software works, that's fine. I like rocketry, but the nazis contributed a lot to that. It doesn't matter though. It doesn't change the function of it.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure, the original developer runs Lemmygrad. Doesn't matter. The great thing about FOSS is that no one owns it. There have been many contributers, not just the first person. Also, anyone can fork it if things go bad. No one owns FOSS. You can use it and contribute to it, but you can't own it.

You sound like communist

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I would mostly agree with that. More of an anarchist bent, but sure. I'm not a tanky. I have no issue with communism, but I do have an issue with authoritarianism, especially authoritarianism that uses the name communism as a cover while not protecting worker rights and freedoms.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And? I made none of the claims you're refuting. I just meant this place wouldn't exist without some of these "communists" and since they made it and were here for years before most of us, it's not surprising there's a lot of communist content.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

God it is validating to see you say that. I’m new to the platform, reddit refugee, and am bombarded by what appears to be hard core communists. It’s exhausting.

Those communists are the ones who built the platform you’re speaking on.

I just meant this place wouldn’t exist without some of these “communists” and since they made it and were here for years before most of us, it’s not surprising there’s a lot of communist content.

You sound like you're implying that because they made significant technical contributions to useful software, then that automatically validates their political beliefs, and /u/[email protected] should just put up with it.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

Unless you want to be in a bubble, I think we should at least have the option to be able to put up with people who have different opinions (regardless of whether they made the software). There are walled gardens like Beehaw for those who want a more filtered experience. The Fediverse is big enough for both of us.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Sure, and the software is pretty good. Nazi rockets were also good. It doesn't mean anything else is good or valid about them. I don't care if the creator is a tanky (definitely don't care if they're a communist) to enjoy the software. It is a useless point to say they created it as a way to justify anything else being good.

It's an appeal to false authority and therefore unrelated to the conversation.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

It doesn’t mean anything else is good or valid about them

Did I praise someone? I noted that some communists built this platform that's why you see them here.

It’s an appeal to false authority and therefore unrelated to the conversation.

I did what now?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And? They don't run anything but their own instances.

Its FOSS. they don't have any ownership over the platform as a whole. If they started trying to fuck with the lemmy source code for their own agenda, then we'd just fork it and carry on as before

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is someone claiming that communists are fucking with Lemmy code? Where did this come from?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

No not at all. The core contributors of lemmy just happen to be communist