EDIT: WE’RE BACK! We’ve managed to restore ownership of our original community, so we’re closing this one down to submissions.
You might ask: “isn’t Mlem’s community on lemmy.ml?”
Not anymore!
We recently parted ways with the team member who ran most of our community outreach. The transition was unfortunately less smooth than we had hoped, and we no longer have access to our old home. (For verification that this is, indeed, the new home of Mlem, you can check our GitHub]
Rest assured that development of the app is not threatened. The core development team is intact, we’re steaming towards our App Store release, and we’ve got some exciting updates coming down the pipeline. Stay tuned!
Give us the gossip, why do you have to switch the community?
We as a dev team agreed after several lengthy discussions that the behavior of one of our team members was incompatible with the continued smooth development of the app. He behaved as though he alone governed the project, harassed our supporters on GitHub over our licensing, and on multiple occasions muted team members in the Matrix chat when they disagreed with him. We asked him politely to step away from the project and hand over the official community and accounts, but he instead chose to make things difficult:
Is this related to the Mlem not being technically open source but using the terminology anyway? I don’t really care but there was some drama over it
They are back to being FOSS https://github.com/mlemgroup/mlem/pull/177
![[ Community Update ] This is (no longer) the (new) official home of Mlem](https://vlemmy.net/pictrs/image/6b401ae4-f64d-4301-a6f6-a37ed6c251d2.webp){kind=link}