In my view, Lemmy is not an alternative to Reddit at all as this is the case.

What is the explanation to this and why is the freedom of expression and speech not respected even here now?

  • k_o_t
    41·
    5 years ago

    As Lemmy is structured in a very similar way to Reddit, the said freedom of expression and speech are only respected and enforced as much as done so by the mods of the respective communities (sublemmys??). Being open-source and libre does in now way guarantee that people with malicious intent are not going to become mods of communities.

    Also, can you be a little more specific? Who did get banned by whom? There were quite a lot of bans a few months ago because the /c/test and /c/main were flooded with ads and spam, so there’s that. The only inexplicable ban that I’ve stumbled upon so far was that of /u/Saba_Murtaz on /c/vegan…

      • AgreeableLandscape
        3·
        5 years ago

        ffsdudes/ffsdude was banned because of this post in which he demands (not suggests, demands) that the devs allow custom monetary support links like Patreon to be added and berates the devs for including their own support links in the project source.

        Also, removed posts are not visible from the user profile, and if the reason for a ban is spam, it is likely that the spam posts have all been removed.

      • k_o_t
        2·
        5 years ago

        According to the modlog both of these people were banned by /u/dessalines for the following reasons troll post and spammer. The second ban is indeed weird… I suggest you simply message /u/dessalines and ask for the reasons directly or ping him in this post