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A place to post new communities all over Lemmy for discovery and promotion.

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The rules for behavior are a straight carry over of Mastodon.World's rules. You can click the link but we've reposted them here in brief, as a guideline. We will continue to use the Mastodon.World rules as the master list. Over all, be nice to each other and remember this isn't a community built around debate. For the rules about formatting your posts, scroll down to number 2.

1. Follow the rules of Mastodon.world, which can be found here.

A. Provide an inclusive and supportive environment. This means if it isn't rulebreaking and we can't be supportive to them then we probably shouldn't engage.

B. No illegal content.

C. Use content warnings where appropriate. This means mark your submissions NSFW if need be.

D. No uncivil behavior. This includes, but is not limited to: Name Calling; Bullying; Trolling; Disruptive Commenting; or Personal Criticisms.

E. No Harrassment. As an example in relation to Transgender people this includes, deadnaming, misgendering, and promotion of conversion therapy. Similarly Misogyny, Misandry, and Racism are also banned here.

2. Include a community or instance title and description in your post title. - A following example of this would be New Communities - A place to post new communities or instances all over Lemmy for discovery and promotion.

3. Follow the formatting. - The formatting as included below is important for people getting universal links across Lemmy as easily as possible.

Formatting

Please include this following format in your post:

[link text](/c/[email protected])

This provides a link that should work across instances, but in some cases it won't

You should also include either:

[email protected]

or instance.com/c/community

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Q: Why do I get a 404?

A: At least one user in an instance needs to search for a community before it gets fetched. Searching for the community will bring it into the instance and it will fetch a few of the most recent posts without comments. If a user is subscribed to a community, then all of the future posts and interactions are now in-sync.

Q: When I try to create a post, the circle just spins forever. Why is that?

A: This is a current known issue with large communities. Sometimes it does get posted, but just continues spinning, but sometimes it doesn't get posted and continues spinning. If it doesn't actually get posted, the best thing to do is try later. However, only some people seem to be having this problem at the moment.

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KAOSnow, a totally new take on Democracy (lemmy.zip)

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Join us in bringing order out of KAOS.

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KAOS = Knowledge As Our Saviour

KAOS is a way for your voice to be heard about ANY current event. We primarily use our website for this endeavour. However, we also are willing to have good conversations here, whether it's about AI, Government or international issues, We want your voice to be heard. There will be absolutely no Doxxing or CSAM allowed, regardless of location.

This is a sister account to r/KAOSnow on Reddit.

Help us get up and running, ask your questions or state your opinions, all we ask is that you are straight forward with what your opinion is about, otherwise than that, we censor nothing on our actual website, here on Lemmy I have to abide by the rules of the Instance I'm on.

ETA: Just because there is no censorship, within law, does not mean we do not have any moderation. Moderation does not mean censorship. Moderation is the process of making sure that rules are being followed as well as governmental laws.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

No moderation means the place will eventually be full of bots and bigots, if it already isn't made exclusively for these things already.

No thank you.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

No we have controls in place to prevent, or at least greatly diminish, the proliferation of bots. There are bots everywhere even here on lemmy. It's a fact with the internet. You all seem to think that no censorship means no moderation, which is completely untrue. we do and will have moderation, and as the usage gets bigger there where be more moderators placed. The only bots we plan to allow are the search engine spiders and AI bots (without posting abilities). When a bot does get through it will be removed through moderation.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

You all seem to think that no censorship means no moderation

No, we all just read the part that clearly says "no moderation of content." Your words.

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

So. Are you going to post something or is it just a place holder?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

no its not just a place holder. I'm actually doing a little research on a topic in my mind so that I have my facts straight. One thing we do rely on is facts and sources of those facts, preferably more than once source, so that others can go and check the source themselves to make their own opinions about it.

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

I will be posting some things, as well as others. This is a completely new process that no one has tried before. Anyone can post anything they have on their minds about current events. This is a way for you to say whatever is on your mind with out it being an echo chamber. We need dialogue, society needs to start having meaningful conversations again without fear of retribution. We used to do this all the time, when the lockdowns happened its like we forgot what it was like having meaningful conversations without the hate and vitirol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 minute ago)

I'm pretty sure something like that has in fact been tried before. I can't remember the details, but we had some peer to peer platforms and other forums trying to establish full free speech with no censorship and no moderation. And turns out they're quickly crowded by trolls, nazis and generally angry and hateful people who feel they're censored and they're looking for people who side with then online. And then we have things like 4chan or 8chan. Or platforms who claim to be free speech, but they're just far-right. Like Gab, Parler and so on.

I'm not entirely sure what you're looking for. If you want something that's not an echo chamber and meaningful conversations, you're looking at heavy content moderation, and enforcing those rules. If you don't want hate, you need to crack down on it.

I'm looking forward to read the details on how exactly you're planning to achieve it. Especially echo chambers / filter bubbles and misinformation are tough, and almost impossible to prevent or teach people about the truth after they've internalized them.

And I'd like to learn more about the planned technology and how it's different from Lemmy (this place).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

from https://kaosnow.com/index.php/about-kaos

believe in free speech, no moderation of content

yeah good luck with that.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 hours ago

Why do you say that? KAOS is not a government entity, its not paid for by governement, it is not even a blip on the radar of the government, but that is because we are still very new. We haven't made an impact that draws attention to us, YET.

As a private enterprise, we are not obligated to follow government regulations, within reason. Yes we are aware of the GDPR and we will definately censor/ban any illegal things such as doxxing and csam or similar. We aren't even allowing photos to be uploaded. Mind you this is all on our website, not here on lemmy. Our Lemmy community WILL follow the rules of our instance at lemmy.zip

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Absence of moderation is in itself a form of censorship.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

There will be moderation to prevent obviously harmful activity such as doxxing and csam amongst others.

But I am curious how you see absence of moderation as a form of censorship. If you could post anything you want without any repercussions for what you post, aside from others that would downvote you or point out what they see as wrong in your post, how is that censorship? No one changes your post, except you. Once again, with the exception of the aforementioned examples, how is there censorhip?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 47 minutes ago* (last edited 42 minutes ago)

Generally, you're going to get targeted on a personal level. There are enough people out there who turn factual conversations into a personal level. Either they're offended by your perspective or fundamentally opposed or just a*holes. And they'll call you names, yell at you, gather their friends to do the same and follow you around and try to make your life miserable... And then you're going to stop sharing your opinion openly. That's what they mean with »it's censorship« (as well). Because you're going to be systematically silenced by that kind of behaviour. It's bread and butter on the internet. Especially on platforms which include anonymity or pseudonymous accounts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How do you figure? Not arguing, just interested.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

@preussischblau @howrar The Nazi bar problem.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

We are currently looking into that issue, it was something I brought up a few weeks ago. The question to answer is where is the line of intolerance and tolerance. Obviously we don't want to encourage any hate speech or anything along that line. We also have a living constitution for KAOS so that amendments and such as can be added, which will be our institutions basis for administrative decisions as well as regulations and changes to the terms or service.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

To be clear, if someone is open about being racist, or sexist, or transphobic, they'll be free to try and convince other folk that racism is good actually as long as they keep it civil and don't start throwing insults?

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

that is exactly it. Let's start having civil conversations about these things. Maybe we all learn something new, regardless of the side of the discussion you are on. The key here is civility.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I have zero interest in going to a place where people who want to take away other peoples rights are given a welcome mat.

The people that will go there are people who want to (civilly) hate on other folk, and free speech absolutists.

What you won't get, is a genuine cross sampling of perspectives and viewpoints, because it will end up being dominated by hateful voices (civil voices, but hateful). And that's what the other person meant when they said that no moderation is a form of censorship/bias in and of itself. Which is to say, you won't saving anyone any time soon, because the people who do want to save folks will be the least likely to use the spaces

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 minutes ago* (last edited 4 minutes ago)

I came here thinking they want to launch the next right-wing "free speech" platform. But now I'm not so sure any more. Maybe they genuinely think the marketplace of ideas works. And it'll be the right idea coming out victorious... Which might actually happen if we indeed were to do rational and logical arguments.

I'd say be aware they might just not know, how people get targeted for identity. Or face more than moderate disagreements on technology and politics, because it's not part of their life... This is all my speculation but to me it sounds like the genuine perspective of someone who doesn't have a clue of the reality of the community you answer for. (And generally what people tend to do online.)