Comment on Is lemmy.ml turn into authoritarian?

Pratai@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Those of us who want to freely discuss geopolitics without fear of getting banned care.

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  • Pratai@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Then do it from a different instance? Who cares what they do on one specific instance? Fuck them and all, but it’s their instance. Complaint about it flies in the face of what lemmy is.

    Or do I not understand the entire point of lemmy?

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Totally transferring to another instance and losing your post history is kind of a shitty solution when they could just not have authoritarian moderators instead.

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      • HKayn@dormi.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You can always observe and research the instance you’re about to create an account on to protect yourself from unpleasant surprises.

        This is not a new development for lemmy.ml.

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      • Pratai@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        And?

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      • Chozo@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Totally transferring to another instance and losing your post history is kind of a shitty solution

        You don't have to do that, though. You can just post on a different instance from your normal account.

        Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe instance admins can remove your content that's posted to another instance.

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      • Zaktor@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Users don’t even need to leave lemmy.ml, they can just use their lemmy.ml account and post elsewhere.

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    • Spzi@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      who cares?

      Those of us who want to freely discuss geopolitics without fear of getting banned care.

      Then do it from a different instance?

      To move to another instance you have to be aware of the issue. To be aware of the issue you have to care about it.

      it’s their instance. Complaining about it flies in the face of what lemmy is entirely about.

      Or do I not understand the entire point of lemmy?

      Maybe just one half. True, one half is that every instance can do what it wants.

      The other half is, that users can do what they want. In order to be able to do what they want, they need information about instances.

      People speaking up about what many people would consider frown-worthy instance behaviour is an important part of that process.

      We are free to warn each other.

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  • Zaktor@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    There are multiple world politics communities and multiple other news/politics communities that also discuss world politics. One community going ban happy is irrelevant.

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