Comment on Is lemmy.ml turn into authoritarian?

• 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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    • superduperenigma@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I joined back in June and lemmy.ml was absolutely doing all of this shit back then. Anything even mildly critical of China was banned for “orientalism.” They’ve never been shy about the fact that their instance is run by tankies.

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  • Pratai@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And?

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And I just explained it. Do you want it in Spanish or something?

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      • Pratai@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I fail to see the problem after I explained that you’re free to post elsewhere. I too have a sign-in with them. But because of their dumb shit- I left and don’t post from there anymore.

        That’s how lemmy works. That’s the entire point of it.

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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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    • gelberhut@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They cannot. But, if you created a community on your instance it must align to the instance rules and admin can moderate it (does matter who posts there).

      The second, smaller, issue people will associate you a bit with the instance you selected for your account (even if it was by chance).

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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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