WilshireDiscord began blocking servers with information prohibited in the Russian Federation
beefontoastIs Lemmy going to be one of the only places we can go to get uncensored content? Even the mainstream UK and US news outlets are filtering things.
Lemmy is massively censored. I just got another ban recently for taking about .ml bans in a .world thread.
How does that work? Which server banned you?
Neshuranot sure about OP’s case but I’ve seen the .ml mods/admins censoring info about which mod did what mod action. Even called it “doxxing” (like wtf it’s public info to any other instance admin and users depending on the instance settings) so I could see them banning someone over that
.ml is pretty widely known to be a shitty instance.
HACKthePRISONSthey have clear moderation guidelines and they enforce them. i think that makes them a good instance.
.world seems to allow some pretty flagrant instance rule violations. capricious enforcement is worse than not having rules imho, because it allows a culture of rulebreaking to persist, and then mods can capriciously moderate citing rules everyone is breaking.
irreticentWhich one? They’re both pretty bad.
Nah it was literally making a joke about how Lemmy user engagement was up so .ml needs to turn on the ban hammer to tamp down the enthusiasm.
SorteKaninIt’s wrong to say that Lemmy is censored. Certain Lemmy instances censor more than others. Go to instances you like that don’t censor the stuff you don’t want censored.
The issue is that right now about a third to a half of the content is on instances which will ban you for random shit without notification. The only way to tell is to search that instance’s modlog, so you can effectively get shadow banned from half of Lemmy even while participating in the “free” half.
I agree that what you say is the longer term ideal, but it’s not how things currently are. I also don’t trust the .ml devs to not keep their thumb on the scale in various shady ways. They have shown themselves to be pretty shameless so far and there are plenty of ways they could quietly shape federated content by running a malicious fork. It already seems like they don’t federate much of their modlog, for example.
Wow the server software banned you? That’s pretty impressive considering you’re currently using it and that feature doesn’t exist.