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I’m a huge nerd, so the reason I joined Lemmy is because I was looking for a social media platform that conforms with my views on FOSS, moderation, and internet privacy. I would assume many other people are in the same boat, but is that accurate? Who’s just here because they looked up “Reddit alternatives?”

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[-] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 2 points 1 week ago

Lemmy isn't immune to bans for people speaking their mind or promoting violence. It happens all the time.

[-] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Sure. But again, it's a distributed platform. And it does tend to be less subject to zero-thought zero tolerance policies built to appease advertisers. If you start posting death threats to politicians, you'll get banned (and probably visited by law enforcement.) But I never posted anything like that. I never threatened anyone. I never advocated vigilante violence. I never posted anything that I couldn't, completely legally, write on a big sign and literally walk around in front of the White House fence advocating for.

[-] bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net 2 points 1 week ago

Hell, Lemmy.world will ban you for OPPOSING violence. But the bright side of federation is the lunatics taking over the asylum on one instance doesn't impact using others.

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