cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/6788379
Hi,
As we might all know ( Early adopter of Lemmy ). Lemmy has been (also) made to give an alternative to the censor kingdom of Reddit ! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmy_(software)
And further more Lemmy is fLOSS 😍
Great ! but watch out ! we don't want that Lemmy take the same path as Reddit did ! ( hopefully this is limited as it run as a ~Federated model )
Anyways, I believe to avoid censorship and jeopardize users privacy the following should be considered by Instance admins and moderators.
Avoid as possible a mandatory email to register Doing so is not reducing spam or whatever you're afraid ! It's limiting users to create account that preserve their anonymity ! If you don't know why anonymity is important I'll suggest you to dig this website to start with https://www.laquadrature.net/en/support/#chiffrement BTW if I couldn't be anonymous, I wouldn't write any post on Lemmy, as I'm not living in a free country !! Look on other instances some admin have found clever way to circumvent bots without the need of an email.
Also Lemmy don't require too much of moderation ! as any user can use the block feature in their options
Showso you should not censor content in behave of others !
If the freedom of expression is limited to the ideas that we like, it is not freedom of expression. Noam Chomsky.
Cheers,
Also Lemmy don't require too much of moderation ! as any user can use the block feature in their options removed externally hosted image so you should not censor content in behave of others !
way too vague. there is no such thing as absolute free speech. nowhere, not on the internet or in real life.
some of reddit's actions are very much justified like banning r/jailbait r/watchpeopledie r/TheDonald. Others were clearly banned because it criticized capitalist status quo such as r/chapotraphouse
CTH was banished for brigading, which was justified, as they were brigading, and brigading makes fora worse
uh huh r/FULLCOMMUNISM, r/MoreTankieChapo, r/GenZedong
also
Reddit banned about 2,000 subreddits on Monday, most notably r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse, in a move the platform said was intended to crack down on online communities that "promote hate."
In a Reddit post, CEO Steve Huffman said the decision comes after discussions about how the platform can "[close] the gap between our values and our policies to explicitly address hate."
sure, brigading, sure.
Multiple subs I modded and followed got brigaded, so yeah, I know whereof I speak.
Blocking and moderation are very different. If a user has one bad day and is getting belligerent, that's a case for moderation, not blocking them forever.
