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

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 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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[–] hakase@lemm.ee 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

I love that lemm.ee is federated with everyone, because that means I frequently encounter ideas that I - gasp - disagree with!

[–] NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 8 points 2 days ago

Not only that, but Lemmy gives us a decent amount of control over our own curation, at the user level. We're from the same instance, but our feeds could be totally opposite each other dependant on who/what we choose to filter/block.

It's one of my favorite things about this platform, and I feel like .ee's ethos really works alongside it.

[–] TheFriendlyDickhead@lemm.ee 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yea Im pretty happy with lemm.ee too. Great instance great (former) admin/founder. Great admin team un general. Could not be happier

[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

Content like: "[Insert Racial Group here] are disgusting and should be genocided"

Well if only exploding heads were still here, you might not wanna see those shit.

Also, federating with everyone is a bad idea. CSAM is everywhere, someone glancing at your phone while you browse lemmy and there just happen to be CSAM, well you're getting reported to the authorities because the person think you are browsing CSAM.

[–] CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think there's a huge difference between seeing opposing ideas and just seeing a bunch of propaganda and brigading.1

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

That's a bit of an interesting dillema. Anyone that supports something consistently is doing propaganda, so it's generally better if people reveal their biases. As for brigading, it's difficult to tell if there's just a large group of an ideologically different instance coming across a post in their all feed or of its a concerted effort.