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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 publish posts that included the slightest word not allowed by their filter 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 own developers. When I wanted to sign-up 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?

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[–] starbrite@lemmy.zip -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ikr? I'm honestly tempted to go back to reddit, but the privacy concerns ick me out

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[–] jimmy90@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago

hahahahahahahahahaaaaa

you're fucking kidding me

[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

lemmy.ml has earned itself a pretty bad reputation, although there are instances that are worse. They keep things clean enough to not get defederated, but you're not really in sane company on there.

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[–] Crackhappy@lemmy.world -3 points 1 month ago

Hmmm, it seems that trolls have invaded AskLemmy.

[–] Sprokes@lemmy.ml -3 points 1 month ago (17 children)

Censorship still exists in lemmy. I got banned from an instance just because I said some things that weren't aligning with far left ideas. I was one of the active members of that instance (we were very few) on non political communities.

I made a political post and one of the administrators wasn't OK with it and started insulting me and then banned me from the whole instance.

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[–] hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works -3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

why does the sign-up process on lemmy.ml involve having to copy a sentence from "The Principles of Communism"?

The OP is trolling.

Looks

Fuck me. It's real. I'm at a lost of words...WTF.

EDIT You can't escape censorship on Lemmy. If you run your own server with full Free Speech. You will have instances blocking you. Welcome to the modern Internet.

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[–] socsa@piefed.social -4 points 1 month ago

Because dessalines is legit in competition for the most cringe person on the internet.

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