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Cake day: November 26th, 2020

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  • here?

    most of those behind were for being “reactionary” or “not an answer”. sounds more like general censorship of ideas and opinions. there was even a post banned for “bad faith arguments, downplaying severity of western settler-colonialism, and both sidesing Ukraine conflict”.

    the mod logs interesting. but i don’t see anything relevant. or maybe i don’t see how it is relevant.



  • In general we are open for constructive feedback

    My one big fear right now is that a mod could delete my words, and they would be lost forever.

    Sometimes I write long essays here. They are ideas that I think are important and original. I write them so people will be able to read them many years into the future.

    It’s important that anything deleted by a mod or an admin can be saved by the creator afterwards.

    I’d argue it’s necessary that nothing can ever be fully deleted, if you want people to ever write anything important here.

    That’s why historically most of the most important world-change essays were written to newspapers. Once a newspaper is published, it is available forever. It can never be expunged.



  • Ideological freedom encourages nasty people. And restrictions encourage thoughtless people.

    You can go on notabug and ignore the crazy psychos and chat with the creative people.

    You can go on reddit and find endless people with no independent thought, repeating things and not listening to reach other.

    Lemmy is in the middle. But IMO that’s not an objective good thing, it’s a preference.



  • I’m always the first to start these threads.

    But it’s good to remember, we chose Lemmy over sites like notabug because it works better. Some good decisions by the devs created a good website, enabling good discussions, which you just don’t see elsewhere.

    Some things like the “slur filter” seem sketchy, but you have to give the devs the benefit of the doubt. They clearly know a couple of things about forum design.

    At the same time, it’s important to talk about this stuff. Better ideas usually come from debate.