Which shoudn't be that surprising, this was the norm in many places until relatively recently. Women, people of color and poor people were never really meant to participate in the "democratic process" (at least as far as conservatives are concerned). The only reason why they were eventually allowed was because they fought for it and eventually, people in power got too scared not to give in a little bit until we are where we are today.

Maybe I'm too pessimistic, but to me, it's surprising that there aren't more conservatives with this view. Because the conservatives who support (basic) women's rights are essentially saying "you violent lefties were right and correct in the past for fighting what you believe was right, but whatever you are doing right now goes too far for some reason"..

Absolutely, this is a good thing. The only reason why I mention it is so that people remember to keep up the pressure and don't just start to blindly trust Biden to "do the right thing" all by himself. Biden needs "encouragement" and if he doesn't get it from the unions, he will get it from some industry lobby.

Shock sites always had trouble with the law, which is why most of them have shut down by now and most social media sites remove it. Watching/consuming it is one thing, publicly and openly sharing/promoting it without effectively restricting access to minors will always bring legal issues and legal attacks.. And even when the legal charges are fought successfully, it's still a major pain in the ass most people don't want to deal with.. And then you also have to find ISP's and hosters who are willing to host this kind of material.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotten.com#Legal_disputes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bestgore.com#Corruption_of_morals_charge

https://www.dw.com/de/gewaltvideos-im-netz-was-strafrechtlich-erlaubt-ist/a-49871305

https://www.skppsc.ch/de/gewaltvideos-und-illegale-pornografie-auf-smartphones/

But I'd think recovering nazis are frequently "people who say some anti-semitic stuff sometimes."

Sure, or racist stuff. But antisemitism, racism and sexism are unfortunately not just limited to nazis, there are plenty of other people who say anti semitic, racist, homophobic and sexist stuff.

And I don't like it when people call all racists nazis because in my view, a Nazi is a specific and extreme version of racist. And of course all forms of racism are bad, but some are way way worse than others.

Individuals or small teams running instances which don’t take money don’t need to comply to GDPR.

Are you sure about that? So if I hosted a website that shows your name and address, you could do nothing to make me take it down because I'm not an organisation or company?

Well that depends on the comment, doesn't it? As far as I understand it, if I posted personal information about you, such as your name, home address, etc, in a comment, you could demand from the admin to remove that comment as it would contain personal information you don't want in the open.

You have to keep in mind, this is about protecting people's health and lives.

And just to be clear, Nazis aren't people who say some anti-semitic stuff sometimes. Nazis hurt and kill people. If an organisation manages to help a neo-nazi leave their gang, but that person still holds some anti-semitic views, that's still a win and anyone who disagrees has some weird priorities in my view..

Would it be better if that person completely dropped those views? Of course, but I prefer a rambling racist 100 times to a neo-nazi throwing molotovs into a refugee home or attacking people in general.

What "third party"? There is only one party that decides how their server is run and moderated and that's the server owner.. If you want to see Nazi content, you can go visit the Nazi server, nobody is stopping you from doing that except maybe your government.. Nobody should be forced to host Nazi content on their servers against their will..

So go make that choice and host your own instance.. What gives you the right to choose how to run an instance you don't own? I could understand if you have no other choice, but you do have the choice. The code is available for free..

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?

I think right now, there are a lot of passionate old school reddit users on lemmy who are exited about it and eager to participate and who are finding a lot of things they were missing from reddit.

The community is a lot smaller and made up largely of enthusiasts.

I think there is a strong difference between people who were on reddit before and after 2016. People who joined after were already used to the official app and new website design, they don't know anything else, so they tend not to care.

There are also a lot of lurkers and casual browsers, they also tend not to care.

The ones who do care a are very loud about it is mainly the old school hardcore members who did not have an official reddit app and who never got used to the new design

I first checked out Lemmy about 2 years ago and was coming around to take a look every now and then. Compared to what is going on since the past couple of days, there were no posts.