Who would be "dealing with them one by one"? People seem to keep forgetting that lemmy, both the code and the infraatructure, is developed and maintained by hobbyists, not by a company.

I'm extremely uncomfortable with an authority deciding for me what I may see in my feed and what not.

You should really think about this, in my opinion, entiteled attitude.. You are not the one paying for the server, you are not the one running the server you are certainly not the one who will have to deal with potential legal actions if illegal shit is going on on your instance..

You are not entiteled to any of this.. You don't have to pay in any way for any of it and lemmy admins don't earn any money from you..

Imagine not only getting into trouble for a hobby, but have random people complain about "authority" because you don't want to/can't deal with potentially illegal shit on your server..

If you are so concerned about "authority" and about "what you see on your feed", start your own server and federate with whoever you want, or start a server that is collectively owned and controlled by it's users or something like that.. You can very very easily do that..

[–] abc123@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This whole comment is the reason Lemmy won't take off

[–] aski3252@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

What exactly is the reason? That Nazis are not allowed? You seriously think not allowing Nazis on the platform will kill it?

[–] r_ffer23@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm worried about that. And every time, they either mention nazis as an excuse, or suggest creating your own instance. I think fragmentation of users and content is only going to promote centralized platforms.

[–] SamC@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 year ago

People have been "worried about that" for the Fediverse for years. It hasn't stopped it growing.

The main question is "what is the alternative?". The only alternatives are corporate social media (e.g. Reddit), where you're even more at the mercy of the admins, or some kind of peer to peer approach which may take off one day, but hasn't really got going yet.

[–] Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Obviously the admins need to deal with content that's illegal. I'm not talking about that.

[–] aski3252@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Spreading Nazi propaganda is illegal in some countries.. The amount of moderation necessary would be unsustainable. And Nazis tend to propagate violence anyway, which is illegal in most places.

And why is it so important to allow Nazis to "share their views" on your platform anyway? What possible benefit could this bring to a platform?