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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] 24 points 5 months ago

The fediverse is not really about avoiding censorship as it is about providing choice. That means the choice to listen to who you want to listen to (i.e. what servers to (de)federate from/to), the choice to post whatever you want (but you might get banned from your own instance or any other instance, that's their prerogative), the choice of administrators and moderators (i.e. which instance you sign up to and what communities you participate in).

All of that stuff doesn't really have to do with censorship directly, but it has implications for censorship. The fediverse is not built primarily to avoid censorship though, and in some cases it is made to make "censorship" (moderation) easier, rather than harder.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Yeah lemmy.ml is full of commie bastards...😂😂😂

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 5 months ago

hahahahahahahahahaaaaa

you're fucking kidding me

[–] [email protected] 70 points 5 months ago (1 children)

.ml is treated as a bit of a bogeyman around here - most of my interactions with their instance and users has been good. I realise this could be different for others. But, yes, they are Marxist-Leninist so, obviously, their opinions and content will be closely aligned with their political philosophy. In my personal opinion and experience .world seems to have vacuumed-up a tremendous amount of people from the other site you mentioned (Robbit?). Their netiquette seems to have not changed. Also, myself and some others have noticed that on .world it’s not unusual to see comments that express views from outside what the majority believe get deleted. Fortunately the “mod logs” are public record so you can see why comments were deleted, whom by and what the original post/comment was. (I guess with the exception of illegal content that has to be scrubbed) I hope you enjoy your time here. Welcome.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago (1 children)

(I guess with the exception of illegal content that has to be scrubbed)

Correct. There is a “purge” feature, but I’ve not yet had to resort such measures after several months of admining.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago

Thank you (and your fellow admins) for all you do and the time you sacrifice. It is appreciated, by me at least. I don’t even want to consider what vile obscenity you run the risk of exposing yourselves to and I’m happy you’ve not yet had to purge anything; but there’s some sick individuals out there and I’m glad you’re a bulwark against that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Thank you for posting, OP.

I was thinking about making an account here. Saw this and made one here, to see how the instance would feel like.

[–] [email protected] 146 points 5 months ago (1 children)

it's not sketchy, it's basically a captcha to keep down automated bot sign ups, and they link to that document in particular, i assume, because the devs are marxists and figure folks who are vehemently anti-communist would refuse and thus keep down their moderation load.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 5 months ago

The most correct answer here honestly.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Join us at lemm.ee. It’s as neutral as can be, the admin is cool, and they leave blocking to the users instead of just defederating outright.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

You're right, that Sunaurus admin guy is pretty cool.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

OP was already posting from Lemm.ee

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The fact that each instance can have its own rules and culture is f a b. I love that’s one of the criteria. Mander.xyz should have a ‘identify all the creatures from the Triassic’ image captcha.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago (4 children)

lemmy was made by communists. if you don't like it go back to reddit.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

How about freaking No!

Lemmy might be written by communists, but nothing stops you using it on an instance that is not.

Also, there's other threadiverse apps out there that work fine with the federated network if you really don't want to use one created by "communists"

I don't think making this place a total echo chamber, by telling people to "go back to reddit" is in any way a good thing.

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 5 months ago

Hmmm, it seems that trolls have invaded AskLemmy.

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