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It's so cringe how people keep talking about the Fediverse as a place with more freedom than Reddit, meanwhile you can get banned from your instance for holding beliefs that the admin dislike (piefed.world)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by beep@piefed.world to c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world

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I mean you can create virtually infinite accounts in the Fediverse, but you could do the same with Reddit.

What is even the point of the Fediverse if it does not offer freedom from external influence.

To make it clear, I am against places with zero moderation. But you still need to be objective and understand how could you lightly moderate without influencing the legal allowed content.

It's so cringe how some people talk about Lemmy when people rant about Reddit power tripping mods and shitty algorithm.

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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

What is even the point of the Fediverse if it does not offer freedom from external influence.

...and...

To make it clear, I am against places with zero moderation. But you still need to objective and understand how could you lightly moderate without influencing the legal allowed content.

That may be your goal, but that isn't a universally held opinion. As an example, trolling would not be illegal, but I have zero desire for trolls to be allowed to run wild simple because they're not breaking a law. There are also certain opinions which many consider socially toxic. Those too don't necessarily deserve a platform simply because they don't break a law.

There's a solution to both if those are your goals. You can stand up and admin your own Lemmy/Piefed instance on the Fediverse. Moderate your own Lemmy Communities and espouse whatever opinion you want with whatever level of moderation you want. None of that is available on Reddit. That's the power of the Fediverse.

That doesn't protect you from your instance defederated if your content is too objectionable to others, but it follows the logic of "Your freedom ends at my nose". You can say what you want, but you can't make others be forced to listen to you.