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?

    • Nakoichi [they/them]
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      21 hours 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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      22 hours 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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      23 hours 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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        21 hours 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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          21 hours 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. 🫡