Which major instances are know for having or not having censorship?
- Almost every instance will almost certainly filter illegal content in their respective jurisdictions, and those that don’t might not be around for long.
- There is a modlog. Just click on it, and you will see what gets removed.
lemmy.one is started by the guys from privacyguides which is a ripoff of privacytools. If I remember their drama correctly, the lemmy.one admin Jonah stole like 10k in bitcoin from the OGs and still hasn’t paid it back. They’ll delete anything you say about that over there and on their subreddit.
What is censorship for you? I mean do you want to have an instance that deletes nothing?
Yup
That sounds like a terrible place.
A place where no one is policing what people can say? Sign me up!
Censorship only applies to people you dont like saying things you dont like. Eventually it’ll be turned on you.
Makes me wonder what you want to say or read that gets censored.
I can realize people have a right to their thoughts without having been censored before.
Some things should be deleted because they are bad for the community as a whole. Harassment, threats, doxxing, calls for violence. You honestly wouldn’t want someone to delete a post with “@carrot@sh.itjust.works lives at XXX. Let’s get together and beat him to death”? And if that doesn’t faze you I can tell you that most people are not like that. So the place you are imagining would be a very small community very fast. Apart from that there is the problem of illegal content and defederation.
I think there’s an obvious difference between doxxing and calls to violence and “I dont like x.” Words and thoughts cannot do harm, and the only way to defeat bad logic is with good logic. No one will change their mind if you censor them, it only gives them more power. If you actually want people to think differently, you have to have an open forum for discussion. And unless you can allow others the same right to free speech as you, you cant expect the same to be given back to you.
This is where the transparency that comes with FOSS vs private corp really shines. You can always check an instance’s modlog to see for yourself where lines are drawn.
Neat, but I’m having a hard time understanding the information on there… Is it instance wide? Or federated? Can I narrow my results by community?
It is the modlog for the instance in the link (lemmy.ml, in the link I provided). <-- edit: I just looked and I’m now second-guessing myself on this
I think the only filter option is by user.
The modlog is always per instance. I don’t think you can filter by community yet.
Good to know. Thanks!
lemmygrad blocks anything not deemed acceptable by the Supreme Soviet
BeeHaw will supposedly censor what they deem to be “hate speech”
I’ve heard reports about lemmy.ml censoring criticism of the CCP. how true this is i don’t know. One of the devs apparently also runs Lemmygrad
Censorship of CCP criticism would be in the modlog if it were true. I’ve only been here a couple weeks but the only things I see the admins refuse to tolerate are racism, homophobia, and hate speech in general. They don’t allow porn but that has more to do with practical challenges than any (expressed) problem with other people wanting it.
You have to go back a day or two and it starts to add up. Looks like they’ve slowed down while there are more eyes. See this post for more details: https://lemmy.ml/post/1167199
Yeah I read that the main Dev of Lemmy is big supporter of communism.
So long as he keeps the lemmy updates coming i don’t care what he believes
Yeah I think the same.
