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What exactly is the point of lemmy? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So I get you are making a distributed reddit alternative. I read that most of you are left politically. You also view reddit as right politically. Which is interesting because I view reddit as left politically in fact extreme left but not as extreme as you are here. Given that reddit has purged many right people and those people have now attempted to also make reddit alternatives like ruqqus, saidit, .win, I get from their perspective they want more freedom which is to basically not have their speech deleted. Then on the left there seems an obsession to silence anyone or thing they don't like, which I feel I am running that risk just typing this. So if lemmy feels reddit is not left enough as in the words of your comrade nutomic "reddit is far right", to which i completely disagree but lets play with it, if reddit is not left enough I take it you mean it is not deleting and censoring enough? To which if lemmy is being created as a solution to that then I think the point of lemmy is to allow and enable even more censorship? I have to say if this is the point of lemmy that is both scary and stupid, scary that people think more censorship is in fact needed and stupid in that people would think more censorship is in fact needed, no well I just wanted to type that but stupid in that they need to make a new platform to enable more censorship, like wow.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago) (5 children)

Censoring racists is cool and good, I wish reddit actually did that instead of letting it fester for years until people point out that multiple mass shooters and hate crimes were committed by people radicalized to hate minorities on reddit. Reddit is then forced to remove those communities because of the bad PR their shareholders don't want to be burdened with.

What value is there in "debating" whether X race should exist or not? Below you defend multiple white supremacist platforms like voat, ruqqus, thedonald.

Again, lemmy is not a free speech platform, we don't allow bigots or hate speech. If the only "point" of a reddit alternative for you is to be able to say those things, even reddit is going to be a better platform than this for you, as they allow all kinds of hate speech we would never allow here.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 years ago

The thing is if you segment the racist from the main community and then they just go form another, probably with a new instance of lemmy what do you think is going to happen? They are going to be more radicalized because opposing views become totally gone. Then you get more shootings. I thought the shootings were connected to 8chan and facebook ?

There should be no value in debating the existence or nonexistence of any race but you can debate differences in races because there is differences (did I just commit a thought crime saying that?).

I defend voat, ruqqus, thedonald because they allow speech not because they are white supremacist, which they are not, except well voat is...

So I am getting mixed messages, on one side apparently instances can do what every they want then on the other lemmy is only going to allow certain speech? So does that mean lemmy can, will or will try control instances some how? hard code in certain filters?

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