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How do you feel about the level of censorship in your current instance ? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by shapis@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Since Lemmy is federated, and the admins of each instance choose what’s allowed and what’s not in their own instance.

How do you feel about what’s allowed and what’s not in your current instance ?

I’ll start: I’ve read people complaining about my instance admins, but I haven’t experienced nor seen anything I specifically disagree with.

And I’ve read things they wrote that I absolutely agree with, like not federating with Meta under any circumstances.

So for now, I’m happy with it. If I get banned randomly, I don’t think I’d go to a different instance, though. I’d probably just stop visiting Lemmy altogether.

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[–] FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyz 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

What censorship?

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Ironic instance name for one you're implying is uncensored.

[–] FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyz 5 points 4 days ago

Ironic instance name for one you're implying is uncensored.

I think it's quite fitting for federated social media.

[–] stinky@redlemmy.com 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Can you point us to some disagreements the people in your instance have had with moderators? Do you have any specific links for us to view? If censorship is happening I'd like to know more about it.

I'm an instance owner (it's very small) and the only thing I don't tolerate is hate messages and subversive spam ("www.BuyGoldHere123.Spam.me"). I haven't yet needed to delete anything my users created.

[–] FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyz 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Can you point us to some disagreements the people in your instance have had with moderators? Do you have any specific links for us to view? If censorship is happening I'd like to know more about it.

No because there aren't any. There are very few active users on WG and I have no desire for it to ever become very big. I originally created it for myself to experiment with and I don't really promote or advertise the instance itself even though people are welcome to join.

The people who have joined tend to share common interests so things have mostly remained the same as when it was just me. The "walled" part of WG is more or less the application process itself, since it removes easy access for troll and bot accounts.

I'm an instance owner (it's very small) and the only thing I don't tolerate is hate messages and subversive spam ("www,BuyGoldHere123,Spam,me"). I haven't yet needed to delete anything my users created.

I've seen some of these spam posts in our communities before but always from outside instances. They are very easy to keep under control and I wouldn't consider that censorship, just garbage removal.