cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/6788379
Hi,
As we might all know ( Early adopter of Lemmy ). Lemmy has been (also) made to give an alternative to the censor kingdom of Reddit ! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmy_(software)
And further more Lemmy is fLOSS 😍
Great ! but watch out ! we don’t want that Lemmy take the same path as Reddit did ! ( hopefully this is limited as it run as a ~Federated model )
Anyways, I believe to avoid censorship and jeopardize users privacy the following should be considered by Instance admins and moderators.
Avoid as possible a mandatory email to register Doing so is not reducing spam or whatever you’re afraid ! It’s limiting users to create account that preserve their anonymity ! If you don’t know why anonymity is important I’ll suggest you to dig this website to start with https://www.laquadrature.net/en/support/#chiffrement BTW if I couldn’t be anonymous, I wouldn’t write any post on Lemmy, as I’m not living in a free country !! Look on other instances some admin have found clever way to circumvent bots without the need of an email.
Also Lemmy don’t require too much of moderation ! as any user can use the block feature in their options
so you should not censor content in behave of others !
If the freedom of expression is limited to the ideas that we like, it is not freedom of expression. Noam Chomsky.
Cheers,
The problem with free speech is that sooner or later it becomes an alt-right echo chamber or a source for barely not legal NSFW content. So every “public” instance needs to have some strict rules on certain topics and also needs to enforce that rules.
If someone wants to publish content without that content being removed due to policy violations one needs to set up an own instance. They then can post whatever they like but have to accept that other instances defederate their instance. You have the right of free speech, but you don’t have the right to have your speech being heard by everyone.
I know at least one instance that is not defederated (for whatever reason) but results in a moderator removing the post when mentioning it. Which is fine, I’ve never seen anything good coming from that instance.