Hey everyone, I’m new to Lemmy and just starting to figure this site out. I mainly moved here because of the censorship on Reddit where they didn’t published posts that included some word and they removed/blocked lots of content. I wonder if it will be somewhat better here (on the official site it says “Censorship resistant - By hosting your own server, you can be in full control of your content.”).

The weird thing I saw with Lemmy was when I wanted to sign-up on the “lemmy.ml” server instance that according to the official Lemmy Servers listing page is a “A community of privacy and FOSS enthusiasts, run by Lemmy’s developers”.

So I thought I try that one when it’s from Lemmy’s developers themselve. When I wanted to sign-in it required an application that you needed to fill out with one of the requirements being having to copy a sentence from the link provided which links to some article called “The Principles of Communism” which I thought was very odd for a site to do. I’ve never seen a site like this promoting some ideology that directly where it’s part of the sign-up process to almost pledge to some political or religious ideology.

This seemed very sketchy to me. Does anyone know something about this?

  • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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    19 hours ago

    All 3 of those are highly political instances, though. Lemmy.world is overwhelmingly liberal and enforces that bias, and dbzer0 is mostly Anarchists. Sh.itjust.works is the least overtly political but leans liberal.

      • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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        2 hours ago

        A lot of its users are full fash Nazis, lots of NATO stans and the meanwhileongrad crowd are omnipresent. I’ve seen some users treat the instance more like Lemm.ee, as a tool for interacting with the rest of the fediverse, but you’re right in that I immediately view anyone with a sh.itjust.works handle critically, and I’m in no way attempting to downplay the fascism from many users.

        I’ll edit my comment, though.