Every major social media is censoring anti-israel or pro-Palestine content. This may be a good opportunity to convince Arabs to move over to lemmy, where only we control the content moderation.
For the record, the lemmy won't be Palestine only. I just think it'll be the reason people will move over.
The reason I ask for others to help me is:
- help advertise to other Arabs to bring them over
- someone to register the stuff in their name. Unfortunately, I am an immigrant in a country and have been interrogated by them before (on bogus grounds). While what I'm doing is not illegal, they have their eyes on me and I am paranoid they'll give me trouble again regardless. I can take care of the technology side of the hosting and the initial costs (hopefully donations cover the rest). Since it will be on your name, moderation and the like will be your decision, but I will just want to make sure initially that we are on a similar page.
An Arabic Lemmy instance sounds like a great idea. There actually used to be one but it seems discontinued. Be aware that Lemmy doesnt currently support RTL text, but people are working on it and 0.19 will at least bring partial support.
Yeah I was familiar with that one and spoke with the creator. Unfortunately they had trouble with adoption because r/Arabs refused to let them advertise. They also were not federated.
I suppose lack of RTL support would be show stopping, so I'd have to wait for that first. Thanks for the hard work!
That would be interesting to see. There is already !palestine@lemmygrad.ml, maybe you can cross-post there too?
I would try some community (on reddit?) of arabs living in countries where there is free speech (the democracy index might help with that) If someone is in a arab country and the instance they host publishes content that is against it's government serious harm can come to them.
You can register things with an anonymous domain registrar. There are privacy registrars that are available.
