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aaaand that's a ban.
I'm not sure if it is a good idea in the long run to swing the ban hammer so quickly.
Most previous Reddit alternatives have quickly turned into extremist communities. And what all of them had in common, was that they wanted to maximize free speech and minimize moderation.
The Lemmy devs are trying hard to avoid that for this Lemmy instance by sending a strong message of what's okay and what's not.
And I really don't think, that is a problem. Anyone can host their own instance where they can welcome the extremists with open arms. Or they can join one of the many existing Reddit alternatives. If this one instance is different from all of the rest, that's the smallest problem.
Implying lemmy is not extremist community rofl
With posts like "Belarus protests are NATO propaganda" on the front-page we kinda joined the "reddit extremist clones" club already.