Hey everyone, I’m new to Lemmy and just starting to figure this site out. I mainly moved here because of the censorship on Reddit where they didn’t published posts that included some word and they removed/blocked lots of content. I wonder if it will be somewhat better here (on the official site it says “Censorship resistant - By hosting your own server, you can be in full control of your content.”).

The weird thing I saw with Lemmy was when I wanted to sign-up on the “lemmy.ml” server instance that according to the official Lemmy Servers listing page is a “A community of privacy and FOSS enthusiasts, run by Lemmy’s developers”.

So I thought I try that one when it’s from Lemmy’s developers themselve. When I wanted to sign-in it required an application that you needed to fill out with one of the requirements being having to copy a sentence from the link provided which links to some article called “The Principles of Communism” which I thought was very odd for a site to do. I’ve never seen a site like this promoting some ideology that directly where it’s part of the sign-up process to almost pledge to some political or religious ideology.

This seemed very sketchy to me. Does anyone know something about this?

  • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    12 hours ago

    Yeah, that’s a good one. Honestly, at the end of the day, it matters more what communities you follow than what instance you are on.

    • murmelade@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      11 hours ago

      But what communities are available to you depends on which instance you picked. Right?

      • GarbageShoot [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        10 hours ago

        Yeah, because they are all part of their respective instances and those instances (de)federate with each other. ml and ee are both good for that purpose. My own instance is bad for that purpose, but after spending some time on a more mainstream instance, I decided this was better for my mental health.

      • can@sh.itjust.works
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        10 hours ago

        Technically yes, but in practice for any of the big instances, not really.

        I still see all the communities I want from SJW: local, dot world, dot ml, lemm.ee, etc

        Exception is Beehaw because they defederated us but they also deferedated Lemmy.world too they’ve already cut themselves from most users. I have an acct there anyway but don’t feel the need to check it much anymore.

        Edit: another notable example is Lemmy.world won’t allow federating with any communities focusing on piracy.