So I get you are making a distributed reddit alternative. I read that most of you are left politically. You also view reddit as right politically. Which is interesting because I view reddit as left politically in fact extreme left but not as extreme as you are here. Given that reddit has purged many right people and those people have now attempted to also make reddit alternatives like ruqqus, saidit, .win, I get from their perspective they want more freedom which is to basically not have their speech deleted. Then on the left there seems an obsession to silence anyone or thing they don’t like, which I feel I am running that risk just typing this. So if lemmy feels reddit is not left enough as in the words of your comrade nutomic “reddit is far right”, to which i completely disagree but lets play with it, if reddit is not left enough I take it you mean it is not deleting and censoring enough? To which if lemmy is being created as a solution to that then I think the point of lemmy is to allow and enable even more censorship? I have to say if this is the point of lemmy that is both scary and stupid, scary that people think more censorship is in fact needed and stupid in that people would think more censorship is in fact needed, no well I just wanted to type that but stupid in that they need to make a new platform to enable more censorship, like wow.

  • AgreeableLandscape
    42·
    4 years ago

    To make it short: There were quite many people who think that I’m a racist sexist. Now, should my words be censored, should my account be banned? Is that a good idea? If you ask me, I’d of course say: “No! They interpret my words wrong, and sometimes they don’t agree with me. But I’m not what they say I am.”

    In the fediverse, the solution would be to find a site whose level of moderation suits your level of edginess. No site, not even this one, owes you a place in it. In fact, using your own logic, me not being able to ban you would be an infringement against my own freedoms of expression and my right to make my site that way I want it to be, since it’s a private site. (Though Lemmy isn’t mine, I just moderate it, just to be clear)

    • Stoned_Ape
      42·
      4 years ago

      your level of edginess.

      …my edginess?

      Don’t get me wrong: Any instance can do what it wants.

      No site, not even this one, owes you a place in it.

      That’s exactly what I meant. Of course does no one owe me anything.

      I wasn’t talking about literally never banning anyone. That’s not what I was saying. And I was also not saying that you can’t do what you want with your private site. Not at all.

      See… this has gone waaaay wrong. “Wrong” not because “you are wrong”, but in the way that our communication failed. I’m not pointing fingers (meant unironically), because this is the internet and pure text communication, and this is a heated topic. So maybe I could have phrased some things better.

      • AshliMeachemOP
        32·
        4 years ago

        Exactly so many things are just a failure of communication. Sure slurs and abuse dont help but you hop on 4chan and it’s all just par for the course so no one cares.

    • AshliMeachemOP
      32·
      4 years ago

      In fact, using your own logic, me not being able to ban you would be an infringement against my own freedoms of expression and my right to make my site that way I want it to b

      You may change that ideal if 230 gets removed or altered.