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Which major instances are know for having or not having censorship?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago
  1. Almost every instance will almost certainly filter illegal content in their respective jurisdictions, and those that don't might not be around for long.
  2. There is a modlog. Just click on it, and you will see what gets removed.
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is where the transparency that comes with FOSS vs private corp really shines. You can always check an instance's modlog to see for yourself where lines are drawn.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Neat, but I'm having a hard time understanding the information on there... Is it instance wide? Or federated? Can I narrow my results by community?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

It is the modlog for the instance in the link (lemmy.ml, in the link I provided).

I think the only filter option is by user.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

lemmygrad blocks anything not deemed acceptable by the Supreme Soviet

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Their modlog is ridiculous!

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What is censorship for you? I mean do you want to have an instance that deletes nothing?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That sounds like a terrible place.

[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

A place where no one is policing what people can say? Sign me up!

Censorship only applies to people you dont like saying things you dont like. Eventually it'll be turned on you.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Some things should be deleted because they are bad for the community as a whole. Harassment, threats, doxxing, calls for violence. You honestly wouldn't want someone to delete a post with "@[email protected] lives at XXX. Let's get together and beat him to death"? And if that doesn't faze you I can tell you that most people are not like that. So the place you are imagining would be a very small community very fast. Apart from that there is the problem of illegal content and defederation.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Makes me wonder what you want to say or read that gets censored.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I mean, deleting content is, by definition, censorship. Not all censorship is bad. For example, I think everyone here wants spam to be censored. Let's not change the definitions of words :)

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't want to change the meaning. I was just trying to find out if OP really means that: in instance that deletes nothing.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Fair enough, sorry if I misinterpreted your post

[โ€“] [email protected] -5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

BeeHaw will supposedly censor what they deem to be "hate speech"

I've heard reports about lemmy.ml censoring criticism of the CCP. how true this is i don't know. One of the devs apparently also runs Lemmygrad

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah I read that the main Dev of Lemmy is big supporter of communism.

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