Hello everyone!
I’m having a hard time making this post as I’ve been so thankful for this awesome instance and the people in it and don’t want to sound ungrateful or start any unnecessary drama or controversy.
I’m thinking about setting up a recurring donation through opencollective but first wanted to try to make sure that I’m not supporting something that I’ll later regret.
I’ve been reading some worrying reports of sensorship from some of the major instances and political affiliations of some core people in the Lemmy project.
I’m of course all for everyone being able to voice their opinion (ofc. excluding harrasment, personal attacks etc.) but sensorship of critical posts (from reliable sources) about any organization/state/nation is kind of a dealbreaker for me. I sincerely hope that these reports are false.
The mastodon.world code of conduct starts with the goal: Provide a friendly, safe, and welcoming environment for everyone regardless of gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, personal appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, age, religion, nationality, political affiliation, or other similar characteristic.
Which sounds fantastic, but I’m interested in hearing if people have experienced any kind of censorship or other weird meddling with posts made on this instance or the mastodon.world one?
-Edit- Just wanted to clarify one more thing (sorry for the long post): I have NOT heard any reports of such activities in this instance (lemmy.world)
It’s funny you mention you’re worried about censorship since that’s also a main concern of the devs. They write about it in the Lemmy Docs here: Censorship Resistance
The entire idea of the fediverse is to prevent one person or group from having too much control over content. I’ve heard the devs have some unique perspectives, but they are intending on making a platform where you can freely disagree with them without them being able to do much about it.
Thank you for the comment!
I’m not really worried about Lemmy as a whole, the federated nature of the platform makes it infinately more resistant against manipulation than any of the centralized platforms.
I was merely wondering about this specific instance and the people who run it as I’m thinking about donating.