This seems to be becoming the hot topic, the elephant in the chatroom - the balance between censorship / freedom of speech on lemmy. There are solid arguments for both ways, and good compromises too.
IMO the FAQ makes it quite clear what the devs have built here, and why. But recent discussions, arguments, make it clear that a lot of the most vocal users object to it.
I’m very curious. Many active users feel this way? Please vote using the up arrows in the comments.
If those users object so much, they are free to host their own instance. When federation first opened up, it led to several users of other instances coming on to our subs and behaving in ways which we found objectionable, and finding that they were acting in bad faith, we banned them. I think we have found a nice equilibrium