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 ๐
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,
Yes it does.
You are just lucky you don't see the worst of it. Remove any kind of checks on users and stop moderating and you would be overrun in CASM, porn, gore and trolls. The beauty of Lemmy is that you can spin up an absolute free speech instance and give it a go yourself. If it gets to a reasonable size it will descend into a hellhole.
I remember a few years ago when Reddit fucked up for the first time there was the now-defunct voat.co. I checked that out and the first thing I've ever seen on that site was a questionable NSFW drawing of an anime character that is underage by canon on the front page.
I did not dig deeper.