There's discussion on pineapplemachine's instance about the questionable moderating practices on Lemmy.ml
I joined sopuli especifically due to not wanting to associate with that kind of practices as I really believe there should be a minimum freedom to criticise any government's actions. Is my belief compatible with this instance or should I think about self hosting?
So far I'm liking it here a lot.
13 Comments
QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz · 24 pts · 3y
Yes, your belief is definitely compatible! What bugs me about lemmy.ml is that the moderation practices are not always clear, and the admins' political leanings show. Unlike Beehaw, I haven't had a manifesto or a grand vision of Sopuli. There are however principles for moderation that have formed: the scientific method and people behaving like in a furnished space. We are not free speech absolutists either, because Voat and currently Twitter have embodied where that leads.
naeap@sopuli.xyz · 9 pts · 3y
thanks for providing Sopuli!
matches my beliefs perfectly. Very happy, that I can be here :-)
blujan@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 3y
Amazing because I think as well that we shouldn't be tolerant of intolerance like Voat and Twitter are now. Thank you for your response.
Phantom_Engineer@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 3y
Here and Beehaw seem like good instances. The drawback with Beehaw is that you can't create communities there. I don't know enough about the smaller instances to comment on it. That said, if you want to self-host and have the means, why not? What better way to make sure it's done right than to do it yourself?
blujan@sopuli.xyz · 9 pts · 3y
I think if sopuli is akin to my interests and beliefs I can better spend the 4 euros or so that it would cost me to self host by helping with the hosting of sopuli so more people can benefit from it.
ETA: it could also save me time, which I really don't have a lot to tinker nowadays.
such_lettuce7970@beehaw.org · 6 pts · 3y
This is all very concerning. I didn't leave uber-capitalist reddit just to end up at the other extreme.
_ed@sopuli.xyz · 8 pts · 3y
To provide context the devs have stated openly the lemmy.ml instance is not a flagship instance and is specifically a leftist foss community (Also why it isn’t in the recommended instances in the join-lemmy site. )
It’s fortunate that you can see how things work then move to another instance but still sub back to the lemmy.ml communities you like, if lemmy main isn’t your bag.
QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz · 8 pts · 3y
And to add, the developers themselves expressed interest in providing hosting temporarily for a mainstream or liberal instance.
NettoHikari@social.fossware.space · 2 pts · 3y
This is why I first opted for KBin instead of Lemmy for my own instance, as the admins of lemmy.ml are also the lead developers of Lemmy. It just felt unethical.
I didn't like KBin and ended up with Lemmy anway, as FOSS software like this isn't really political, as it can be forked, if necessary.
I'm still against ideology like that and I will remove the heart shaped donation icon from the top bar of my instance soon, so that the devs will not make any money from my instance.