Ask Lemmy

Freedom of speech. Yeah, sorta.

Freedom from consequences of your speech. Nope.

In some ways yes, and in others no. On Reddit, shitheels like UniversalMonk and all of his sock puppets, along with Dragonfuck would have been banned a long time ago.

lemmy isnt really an organization. its a platform that is then utilized by hundreds of different operators/groups implementing their own rules against much of the same content. there are many of these platforms that all offer differing capabilities and features while sharing a lot of the same content. this network is what we refer to as the fediverse.

the reddit-like side is the threadiverse and is mimicked by platforms like lemmy.

then there is the twitter-like (microblog) side i call the twitterverse and is mimicked by platforms like mastodon.

then you have platforms that can access both sides of the fediverse like piefed and mbin.

https://fedidb.com/

as for censorship...

its the beauty of this network' if one of those servers goes apeshit people can literally just move their 'subreddit' to a different server and tell the og one to fuck right off. this has happened a few times in different ways. users created new subs on other servers and effectively ignored the original, with no one having to make new accounts. it proves the idea.. no one person or company can control the content of the fediverse.

Yes. Reddit is now beholden to corporate interest, and posts comments that go against those interest get deleted and users get banned. Once you're banned, there's no creating a new account because they IP block. Fuck reddit, long live lemmy.

It does, outside of truly bad stuff or straight-up spam and such, you can just about say whatever here where Reddit will ding you if you sneeze wrong, seemingly, especially nowadays after they tightened up censorship over there.

Also, unlike Reddit, if you don't like a given Lemmy instance, you can either move to another or even host your own, where with Reddit, it's either their way or the highway as it's a centralized, closed platform.

No... thats not really a thing here anyway. But yeah. I may have been totally banned several times, hearsay. I might get banned again just for saying that. Its usually shortly after I reveal some of my awesome political opinions... /s There really is only a couple handfuls of folks posting content too. Watch for P icarrd maneuver, p ugjebus, c owbea, and some others. They post shit all hours of the day constantly, to dozens of different instances like it's their job... but they certainly aren't getting paid.

No, I dont care about getting banned anyway, im going to speak my mind. Unfortunately, Marxist and commies dont usually agree with me and is usually the point of contention.

No, it's only on the other direction of extremism.

Your question doesn't make sense. "freedom of speech" is a political right to prevent government censorship. Internet forums have moderation and that's different from censorship because it's a private space.

If someone came to your house and started insulting you and your family would you tolerate it in the name of freedom or would you tell the jerk to shut up and get out?