Which major instances are know for having or not having censorship?
- Almost every instance will almost certainly filter illegal content in their respective jurisdictions, and those that don’t might not be around for long.
- There is a modlog. Just click on it, and you will see what gets removed.
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
Yeah I read that the main Dev of Lemmy is big supporter of communism.
So long as he keeps the lemmy updates coming i don’t care what he believes
Yeah I think the same.
Just as long as the censorship of the CCP criticism isn’t true, I don’t care
What do you mean “read” I visited his Lemmy profile and found a communist politician on his banner
Censorship of CCP criticism would be in the modlog if it were true. I’ve only been here a couple weeks but the only things I see the admins refuse to tolerate are racism, homophobia, and hate speech in general. They don’t allow porn but that has more to do with practical challenges than any (expressed) problem with other people wanting it.
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Wow - thank you for sharing that. There are aspects of this instance I don’t love, but banning over shadow rules is enough for me to consider just going elsewhere.
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.
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?
The modlog is always per instance. I don’t think you can filter by community yet.
Good to know. Thanks!
It is the modlog for the instance in the link (lemmy.ml, in the link I provided). <-- edit: I just looked and I’m now second-guessing myself on this
I think the only filter option is by user.
lemmygrad blocks anything not deemed acceptable by the Supreme Soviet
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What is censorship for you? I mean do you want to have an instance that deletes nothing?
Yup
That sounds like a terrible place.
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.
Makes me wonder what you want to say or read that gets censored.
This is giving me “why do you care about privacy, what do you have to hide” energy
