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submitted 1 year ago by Foresight@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

When I was growing up the internet was a place to be liberated from the world say what you want to say, be whoever you want and form genuine communities with shared interests. Now the internet feels like a tool to enslave the mind with identity echo chambers and any deviation leads you to being banned and blocked shunned and silenced within a void that is inescapable. Novel unique websites coded manually by hobbyists running servers for free in the commons allowing people access to the free flow of information under the banner of "information should be free" has largely gone away with corpratisation. I miss the days when the internet was populated largely by nerds aiming to make a better world not this controlled censored hell hole of profiteering.

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[-] livus@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Gets censored by who? If you run your own instance you have control over what gets said.

Everyone has the freedom to decide who to be friends with, what conversations to participate in, and who to let into their house.

Me, I'm on kbin.social, that's Ernest's house. If I don't like it I can go host my own kbin or lemmy somewhere else.

You're on Lemmy.ml, if you don't like the rules there you can make your own lemmy instance.

That's the beauty of the fediverse.

this post was submitted on 31 Jul 2023
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