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?

  • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    the people will let in should benefit the society and not the opposite. If you check Switzerland, Japan, Nordic countries which have good immigration policies, the quality of life is way better.

    Right there. Anti-immigration on the basis of cultural differences and praise for Imperialist ethno-states.

    Secondly, no, racism should be banned and censored to protect marginalized groups. Censorship of racism is a good thing.

      • Nakoichi [they/them]
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        3 days ago

        Yes we all understand what you are actually saying and because of that we are disgusted and telling you to fuck off.

      • chloroken@lemmy.ml
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        3 days ago

        JAQing off about immigration based on religion and ethnicity is not an "I am from left" thing to do.

      • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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        3 days ago

        Yes, I understand from your statements that you have a western-chauvanistic mindset and praise Imperialist ethno-states.

        • Nakoichi [they/them]
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          3 days ago

          I think it might have been me that banned this dipshit from hexbear that they are talking about lmao

          • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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            3 days ago

            Good riddance. They keep acting like it's totally absurd to see their praise of euro-centric ethno-nationalist Imperialism as racist, this is like a comedy sketch. 🫡