Comment on Is lemmy.ml turn into authoritarian?

• 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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      • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You’re free to abandon your account and they’re free to not hire authoritarian moderators. Why should it be on you and not them?

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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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