Comment on Do you refrain from participating to a community if it's hosted on Lemmy.ml ?

IndustryStandard@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• OpenStars@discuss.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Pasting from another comment here:

  it is an issue that everyone commenting on every post across every community on that whole entire instance must essentially conform to all of their ideals - or else be banned from all of those communities, not merely the one with the “offensive” statement. You cannot say anything truthful about Russia, China, Ukraine, Uyghurs, Taiwan, Israel, Palestine, Gaza, etc. (if the admins disagree with what you said)

  Imagine if we were on Reddit and could not say “fuck spez”, or we were on Linux but for some reason were still forbidden to say “I prefer not to use Windows today, so thank you but no thanks”. Those communities on Lemmy.ml are held hostage to people if not agreeing then at least going along with whatever party line BS that the admins want to uphold. Moreover, at any time they could add whatever their wanted to that list.

  So it’s not about politics, per se, but their decision to become the arbiters of “truth(iness)” about everything across any community on their entire instance.

  Do whatever you want, but I hope it helped for me to explain that.

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