I'm hearing Lemmy itself, the .ml instance and some others are ran by Tankies that censor criticism of russia and china. What are your thoughts on this? (lemmy.world)

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Are you saying that everyone should have the same political opinions? I don't think so.

Each individual has the right to have their own opinions, and they have the right to express them, no matter how we might like them or not.

Blocking features exist for that reason, if something is too much for you to bear, block it and move on.

Lemmy is best when it is unified

Like reddit?

[-] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Blocking features exist for that reason

Cool, where's the button to block lemmy.ml and lemmygrad?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

If you want to block them as a server, go to a server that already does that, there are a few.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I tried. Can't join any of them. This was actually my 10th server I signed up for and it finally let me in. The rest mention a validation email that never comes.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'd block lemmygrad, tbh.

I'm not blocking Lemmy.ml. They are worth a little more than one or two tankie mods. If it skews a little too far that direction, tho... maybe.

With any luck, the community itself will sway larger instances. Smaller ones... who cares?

[-] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lemmy will have a responsibility to thousands of users, only Lemmy is a federation. People here will come to agreements on various topics and political issues and it won't take long before the community is split on one.

Who calls the shots when everyone has equal say? That's when groups and hate start.

I'm not saying everyone needs to agree politically. It's that on a long enough timeline, you'll either be here in agreement or disdain over the political climate chosen by Lemmy together.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

There's no such thing as "Lemmy together", Lemmy servers are individual instances of "Lemmy software" created and managed by different individuals that are totally independent from each other.

It's like individual subreddits, managed by different mods, each one with it's own rules and beliefs.

Weren't some subreddits split and hated each other? YES

Did that make reddit not valuable as a platform? NO because there were still many subs with amazing people and quality content.

When you have millions of people, divisions are inevitable, it will surely happen here if Lemmy gets enough traction, but I don't see it as a problem, reddit was fine regardless of it, Lemmy will be fine as well.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

"Who calls the shots when everyone has equal say?" this is pretty much one of the core design goals of federated services. You get say in your server. People will federate or defederate naturally between servers, that's... The point.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

it won’t take long before the community is split on one.

People are always "split" on all kinds of topics.. Conflicts and disagreements are part of the human experience and impossible to avoid.. The question is how you deal with conflicts.. Trying to avoid or suppress them doesn't work..

Who calls the shots when everyone has equal say?

Nobody calls the shots, that's the entire point.. People are free to form communities and run their communities however they see fit.. If a community has an issue with another community in significant enough ways, they will block each other and that's it..

And it's not like this is anything knew.. The internet is inherently diverse when it comes to different opinions, and that's ok..