I’ve been trying Lemmy for a little while and wasn’t sure how to feel about it.
Today, I wanted to start blocking the most high-censorship instances until I could find a fully zero-censorship instance and simply block all the ones with censorship. Filter bots, not people.
When I looked into it further, I found out there are no zero-censorship instances, because Lemmy relies on a broken “federation” system where each instance is supposed to be able to fetch posts from other instances, but it’s never been finished to reach a fully working state. Lemmy’s official docs say you can’t even do federation over Tor at all. This means it uses DNS, so it won’t actually allow Lemmy instances to fetch posts from each other freely, it just gets blocked instantly and easily, every time the authorities feel like blocking anything.
So you can only ever have the “average joe lemmy” and “average joe reddit” with everything approved by the authorities, and then “tor copies of lemmy” and “tor copies of reddit” where you have free speech but you can only reach other nerds.
People seem to think Lemmy is different because this weird censorship fetish is extremely popular and most of you are happy to see bans happen to certain people, not just bots, so a small Lemmy that censors certain people feels fundamentally different from a big reddit that censors more people. But it’s the exact same thing, it’s reddit.
When reddit was smaller, you could say basically anything you wanted there, they just wouldn’t let it reach the main audience. Then it got too big, and any tiny part of the audience you could reach would be too big, so they won’t let you talk at all.
Lemmy is now the small part of reddit where you can say whatever you want, separated from the main audience, until too much growth happens and you have to move again.
It’s not actually a solution to reddit. It’s not designed to be different, it’s designed to match the past today and then match reddit’s present tomorrow, while being part of a system that’s about the same in past, present, and future.
Last year, this year, and next year, you’re posting somewhere it won’t be seen by many people, and the system that charges people for ambulance rides is getting another year of ambulance ride revenue, facing no organized resistance. There’s no difference here.
Lemmy urgently needs federation between onion service instances and DNS addresses in order to actually do what most users seem to wish it would do: allow discussion outside what the corporate authorities allow, while outgrowing reddit & helping undo the damage social media has done to human communication.
OK, and?
Didn’t ask. Also, read Small Gods (or honestly any book please)
Not again, no, because I remembered it being answered where you asked it.
I asked if there was a way that’s true in this case. Is there?
I think you’ll stop replying before me, even if you have to ban me and pretend that’s me stopping replying.
What do you mean? You have some way of forcing me to do what you want?
Incorrect.
Correct, generally.
Clearly not for everyone. You’re obviously not working this way right now. But I do, yes.
I think you should rephrase that to “are you dumb enough to think the USA doesn’t exercise its long arm to shut down websites all across the world?”
OK, still sounds true, but kinda embarrassing to be quoting here out of nowhere.
Incorrect. Scroll up.
Didn’t ask. I asked why you brought up the topic we were discussing, in which Hamas.ps had been one of the subtopics.
Incorrect then.
Incorrect. I’ve only been saying true things, so without reading the part you were responding to here, I can assume it was two things I said which were both true.
Why would I do that?
This is you admitting you’ve asked and been answered multiple times, and still continued dishonestly repeating yourself.
Are you starting to break out of the dishonesty, or just getting sloppy?
Incorrect.
Any evidence for your claim that lemmy.world mods were pressured into this?
If what is true?
No, just I’m not going to change my position.
Can you show me some examples of the USA doing this?
Hamas.ps was first mentioned by you, not me.
How else is it going to get done? How else do you plan to get Lemmy on TOR?
I doubt very much you even know what you’re asking me in most of these posts, to be frank. Your memory of my prior replies is terrible.
Yeah, but why did you put this right after a quote of yet another place where you ignored what I said in yet another one of my replies?
I don’t know, I’m not scrolling up to check.
That doesn’t make “non-negotiable” an applicable term to inject when begging someone to do something for you, lmao
Too tired of your shit to read the part where you quoted what you’re asking for examples of, let alone hold your hand through Google searches.
Didn’t ask. I asked why you brought up the topic we were discussing, in which Hamas.ps had been one of the subtopics.
Why did you just make me repeat that? Just to abusively waste my time and energy, right?
I don’t know, is it? Why are you asking like I would know?
I don’t, why are you asking like I do? Just to abusively waste my time and energy, right?
I don’t care. Where’s your evidence?
My point exactly. You barely know what you’re replying to.
So, no, you can’t. You make claims and everyone has to disprove them.
No, you referenced them suddenly as a site that was shut down.
“Abusive”? Am I keeping you here?
If you don’t plan to get lemmy on TOR, then what’s the point of any of this?
If you don’t care about my question, why are you asking one?
Nope. You don’t have one.
Incorrect.
Not sure what you’re saying, but doesn’t sound like it makes sense.
Incorrect. You brought up the topic they were a subtopic in. Why do you keep repeating the same lies? Is there a reason other than that you’re deeply mentally ill?
Why do you keep acting like you need everything repeated so many times? Is there a reason other than that you’re a pathologically abusive person?
I’m not holding you captive, making you respond. That it upsets you so much is an entirely self-inflicted problem.
Here’s you first mentioning them.
I didn’t ask if you were. Why waste time typing that?
I don’t understand. How much do you mean? What problem? Whose self?
First mentioning what, and why are you giving me a link to my own post?
I didn’t ask if you asked. Why waste time typing that?
You keep crying about me abusing you.
You can’t be serious. You really can’t be serious. You can’t trace back 1 post to see what I was referring to there in the source?
It wasn’t a waste of time, my words matter.
Incorrect. Perhaps you have “crying” confused with “replying.”
I think I’m kinda good at being serious, actually.
Repeating it doesn’t make me agree.
What do you mean?