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 publish posts that included the slightest word not allowed by their filter 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 own developers. When I wanted to sign-up 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?

  • Sprokes@lemmy.ml
    0·
    1 month ago

    Where did you see that? Even if it is the case isn’t that just censorship which the subject of this post to which I am responding? There were no discussion or anything and ban you from the whole instance (not just the community).

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
      0·
      1 month ago

      the people will let in should benefit the society and not the opposite. If you check Switzerland, Japan, Nordic countries which have good immigration policies, the quality of life is way better.

      Right there. Anti-immigration on the basis of cultural differences and praise for Imperialist ethno-states.

      Secondly, no, racism should be banned and censored to protect marginalized groups. Censorship of racism is a good thing.

      • Sprokes@lemmy.ml
        0·
        1 month ago

        You understood from that I am against immigration and I was praising imperialist ethno-states?

        It is OK to let immigrant that could integrate to society. I would love to have Japanese immigrants influencing our society with their culture and mindset. You find it OK that people come and try to impose their religion for example? A teacher shows Mahomet pictures in a laic country and then immigrants start doing violence (I know that they are not all immigrants, some of them may have gotten citizenship). At one time some immigrant were saying that it is a good thing that we had a Charlie hebdo attacks. We shouldn’t let people like that or at least we should do more checks before giving citizenship like it is done in Switzerland for example.