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How good is Lemmy dealing with censorship and why does the sign-up process on lemmy.ml involve having to copy a sentence from "The Principles of Communism"? (lemm.ee)

submitted 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey everyone, I'm new to Lemmy and just starting to figure this site out. I mainly moved here because of the censorship on Reddit where they didn't publish posts that included the slightest word not allowed by their filter and they removed/blocked lots of content. I wonder if it will be somewhat better here (on the official site it says "Censorship resistant - By hosting your own server, you can be in full control of your content.").

The weird thing I saw with Lemmy was when I wanted to sign-up on the "lemmy.ml" server instance that according to the official Lemmy Servers listing page is a "A community of privacy and FOSS enthusiasts, run by Lemmy’s developers".

So I thought I try that one when it's from Lemmy's own developers. When I wanted to sign-up it required an application that you needed to fill out with one of the requirements being having to copy a sentence from the link provided which links to some article called "The Principles of Communism" which I thought was very odd for a site to do. I've never seen a site like this promoting some ideology that directly where it's part of the sign-up process to almost pledge to some political or religious ideology.

This seemed very sketchy to me. Does anyone know something about this?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

"Can't integrate into society" and then goes and supports Imperialist ethnostates, lmaoooo

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

You see, you are just insulting and making assumptions. I don't care about ethnicity as long you adhere to the country values. Do not impose your religion in a laic country, it is not OK to disturb people with your music in public just because it is OK in country, do not take transport without paying because it is OK in your country, letting children cry or make noise late in the night isn't OK ,... They are not exaggeration, I am experiencing them. I have had discussion with them and I am immigrant too and those behaviors are OK. I got responses like "it is normal that children make noise at night". We are talking about running and crying for hours after 10PM.

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

Let it be clear, you took an effectively anti-immigration stance on the basis of cultural differences, then praised Imperialist Ethno-States. Yes, it was correct to ban you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 minutes ago

Where did you see that? Even if it is the case isn't that just censorship which the subject of this post to which I am responding? There were no discussion or anything and ban you from the whole instance (not just the community).