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[-] L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works 37 points 5 months ago

Lmao nah. Lemmy is just decentralized censorship. Anyone can ban or block anything else; anyone can start their own community instance and kill it on a whim. Multiple communities have already defederated in the less than a year that I've been on here.

Lemmy solves the issue of centralized censorship/echo chamber communities, by replacing them with individual personalized echo chambers that you get to censor yourself. It's a lot of work to set it up and sustain that type of situation, so it's not realistic for a rational person that does not have a severe internet addiction to waste their time and effort doing it.

[-] turkalino@lemmy.yachts 18 points 5 months ago

replacing them with individual personalized echo chambers

Which really wouldn't be that bad if instances were more clear about how they operate. Like, on the user signup page, there should be a big ol checkbox saying "I UNDERSTAND THAT ANYTHING THATS NOT A POSITIVE POST ABOUT COMMUNISM WILL GET ME BANNED" or whatever

[-] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It's been fun abusing a Lemmy bug (or an API feature, depending on how you look at it) that lets you see what a removed comment originally said on a certain .ml instance. Unsurprisingly, they almost always were something negative about China or Russia.

[-] neshura@bookwormstory.social 1 points 5 months ago

absolitely agree, the lemmy.ml mods (but especially the admons) are extremely trigger happy to remove anything they don't like wjethet it breaks any rules or not

[-] pop@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago

Lemmy is just decentralized censorship.

It more like the opposite. Federated instances can keep all the federated posts without ever deleting them. Then also sell and monetize it.

anyone can start their own community instance and kill it on a whim.

Shutting down an instance doesn't mean it's censorship. If a library shuts down if it can't stay up, is that censorship?

It's a lot of work to set it up and sustain that type of situation, so it's not realistic for a rational person that does not have a severe internet addiction to waste their time and effort doing it.

Lol, freeloader says what?

[-] bigMouthCommie@kolektiva.social 3 points 5 months ago

what are the symptoms of internet addiction, and can it be treated with alcohol?

[-] L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works 11 points 5 months ago

Yes. It's basically required. Weed helps too, though many experts claim that you don't need to smoke it and simply touching grass will suffice but idk man. Better to play it safe and just take rips between sips.

[-] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago

We know that spending several billions of dollars on a social media site is NOT one of them.

[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Alcohol is a solution, according to science.

[-] anotherandrew@lemmy.mixdown.ca 4 points 5 months ago
[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Solvent all my problems, boooiiiiiiii

[-] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago

You always have the option of changing instances if you don’t like what the admins are doing, or creating accounts on those defederated instances to see what they’re up to.

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