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How do you feel about the level of censorship in your current instance ? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by shapis@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Since Lemmy is federated, and the admins of each instance choose what’s allowed and what’s not in their own instance.

How do you feel about what’s allowed and what’s not in your current instance ?

I’ll start: I’ve read people complaining about my instance admins, but I haven’t experienced nor seen anything I specifically disagree with.

And I’ve read things they wrote that I absolutely agree with, like not federating with Meta under any circumstances.

So for now, I’m happy with it. If I get banned randomly, I don’t think I’d go to a different instance, though. I’d probably just stop visiting Lemmy altogether.

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[–] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I’m on lemmy.one which has disabled downvoting. If I had known in advance I would have picked another instance. Unfortunately, Lemmy doesn’t have a mechanism to transfer your account to another instance yet.

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Disabling down votes is good actually because it forces people to engage and not just down vote and move on.

[–] glans@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

but sometimes i just want to be passive aggressive

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Or you want to communicate that a highly upvoted thing isn't unanimously supported, but you don't want the tsunami of downvotes that comes with leaving a comment that says you disagree.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hey dude, I just wanted to let you know there is an option in your settings so you don't see upvotes or downvotes.

Lemmy (AFAIK) doesn't even show you your total upvotes (karma... whatever it's called) by default either. None of these imaginary points fucking matter.

So why don't you do yourself a favor and uncheck these boxes and not give a fuck what others think about your comment.

I know I have.

(Lemmy is rad as fuck)

[–] Cataphract@lemmy.ml 3 points 20 hours ago

Holy shit I completely had no idea, why doesn't this ever get brought up when they talk about voting in general? Thank you for letting people know.

[–] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That doesn’t really work if people from other instances do get to downvote.

[–] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 9 points 22 hours ago

What do you mean? Hexbear doesn't have downvotes and people constantly complain about getting ratio'd by us. If an instance doesn't offer downvotes it completely blocks downvotes from being recorded, it doesn't leave you at the mercy of other's downvotes.

[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone -1 points 1 day ago

It also benefits trolls and disingenuous conversation.

[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Copy settings to new account, add a note in your old profile telling people you've moved to another instance and add the link to your new profile. Use the same Display name in both. Done. If you want to remember what you posted, you could always search and filter by your old account and new account. It's effectively the same as a transfer.