I know this post will probably be downvoted to hell, give me much problems and probably will make my account being banned but you have to know that i take no side writing this.
So i wanted to take a look at lemmygrad.ml to see if it was as it’s reputation is(im not the kind of person to follow the herd without thinking by myself) and apparently lemmygrad never defederated with any instances without consulting it’s members(which lemmy.world and others instances did).
So i was thinking, isn’t censoring content without asking your community a totalitarian thing like north korea or any so-called totalitarian country could have done ?
I know i may be incorrect but i accept any kind of criticism against this post if it’s constructive, “shut up hidden tankie” or any kind of free insult isn’t a valid arguments, if you really defend democracy as i do im sure you can debate while being civilized.
There is a difference between censorship and the right to not have to listen to somebody. Being banned from having a platform to speak from could count as censorship (for example being banned from Reddit). However with Lemmy those on lemmygrad are free to say whatever they want, the difference is that everyone else is just as free to not have to listen. The idea of the Lemmy instances is that they have the ability to curate content - an instance catering to an LGBT community is not going to want to have to listen to right wing evangelicals and you join up on that knowledge. If you want to have the option to hear every single voice then join an instance with that mindset or just host your own.
Thanks for you constructive comment.
the difference is that everyone else is just as free to not have to listen. You’re right, if you refuse to hear people’s opinions it’s your absolute right, even if i strongly disagree with it because i consider it being closed mind imo.
What is the value in hearing opinions that denigrate your existence and way of life? Why would that make one close minded? You have finite amount of time, resources, and mental energy to devote to the content you engage with. Why spend it on content that you consider antagonistic, toxic, and stress-indiucing?
If you dislike it, join another instance that doesn’t defederate with it; it’s as simple as that.
No it’s not censorship because if you want to see Lemmygrad’s content then you can join Lemmygrad.
In the same way, I like gardening and so subscribe to ‘Gardeners World’; doesn’t mean everyone else should be subjected to posts about weeding, feeding and getting rid of blackfly if they are not interested in that.
When you use a a server which you didn’t host by yourself you have to accept the ToS and it include the ability of admins to defederate from whatever instance they want WO asking their community, so democracy isn’t obligatory unless it’s in their ToS.
If you don’t want your administration to choose for you, you have always the option to switch servers to something you think it’s better or host it yourself.
