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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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[–] pH3ra@lemmy.ml 21 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

"Censorship" has become a buzzword and lost all of its meaning

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

The line is at least very blurred with moderation. One person's moderation is another person's censorship.

[–] SilentStorms@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago

Its the same thing. People are just primed into thinking that censorship is universally bad in every instance.

[–] infinite_ass@leminal.space 4 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

It simply means that somebody stopped you from talking.

That's it.

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

It's meaning in abstract is simple, but it's actual manifestations are usually quite complex. Self-censorship for example: If you self-censor out of fear of a negative social reaction, to what degree is that actually someone else stopping you from talking? Everyone else, or the idea of everyone else? I would say that any view that's held by a group of people that's pervasive enough to cause others to calibrate their words towards them, any cultural context strong enough that visitors feel a need to adjust for it, automatically and unconsciously practices censorship.

[–] infinite_ass@leminal.space 2 points 16 hours ago

My experience with it has always been "they don't like me talking so they stopped me". Pretty simple. I speculate that this is the general case.

But yes, I have encountered the odor of that second variety a few times. Just the odor tho. I am not one to restrain my speech for fear of offending. On social media anyway.