The first comments are linking to the wikipedia page of free speech.
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A tl:dr; of what the brain-geniuses over at “hacker” news think about lemmy:
- Lemmy.ml has a code of conduct? What about my ❄ 🍑 es!!!
- Having an optional slur filter is worse than the holocaust.
- What is federation? Sounds like it can’t work. Back to twitter and reddit.
- Echo chambers are bad when left-wing, good when right-wing.
- So you have two communities with the same name on two different sites, but they’re different??? I can’t figure this out and I’m literally a hacker!
- The devs are literal Marxists!!! Screams in terror and dies immediately.
So you have two communities with the same name on two different sites, but they’re different??? I can’t figure this out and I’m literally a hacker!
Two different computers communicating on the same network??? That’ll never happen!!!
That last point made me chuckle
Let them clutch their pearls. The more they scream bloody murder the more people will become aware of our community and come to see what we’re about. A significant portion of them will stick around.
Favorite comment so far:
As to “the rest of the civilized world”, as pointed out several times now, very little of the “civilized” world has strong speech protections. Germany? Laws against Holocaust denial and defamatory fake news[1], which sounds Orwellian.
Freeze peach enthusiasts when they can’t deny the Holocaust
Oh god they’re complaining about the slur filter again
Pretty funny because it was made optional and customizeable like a year and a half ago. But these nerds won’t let it go that the lemmy devs wouldn’t let them say the n word.
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The admins are literal marxists (I do mean literal, check the admin profiles), and have designed the technology wanting “to make it very difficult for racist trolls to use the most updated version of Lemmy.” https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/622mistermann 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [–]
Having ideological censorship baked into the base system seems like not an optimal approach.notsrg 2 days ago | root | parent | next [–]
Kind of a self report if your ideology depends on using slurs, don’t you think?
What I really hate about this website is their stupidty and cryptofascist tendencies are on full display here but they regularly have “philosophical” articles on their front page so they can pretend to be intellectuals. It is somehow worse than Reddit which is saying a lot.
r/iamverysmart energy.
hey, our favourite free speech enthusiast Nutomic is in the comments
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Another classic:
The real Lemmy wouldn’t have a rude word filter. He’d let you use the rude word, and if you got punched in the mouth for using it he’d use that as a teachable moment. Be more Lemmy.
Slur filter is authoritarian, the freedom way is to seek rude internet people’s identity to find them and engage in physical violence
Lemmy should replace the slur filter with mandatory home addresses, so the commenters plan can work.
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We are all the real Lemmy on this blessed day
who exactly is this mysterious Real Lemmy™
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oh, that might be it
The Real Lem Lady
…This is fucking ridiculous. Technically this is EXACTLY why we have manners so that we dont resort to beating the shit out of knuckleheads who would casually get out of line.
The more fascist you are, the more frozen peaches you get
Tell them… tell them about lemmygrad
New feature idea for lemmy: make a setting when you upload a picture that resizes it to presets. Like type “emoji” in the [] hyperlink field to make it the size of an emoji.
Someone put it on the git repo I am not good with computer
Aight, on it
typing slowly into searchbar “how do you do a computer thing”
of course they’re complaining about the slur filter…
lemmy.ml uses a slur filter and calls itself leftist. That’s enough to make the “hacker” news crowd hate it.
May the hackers always shit themselves over basic decency.
LMAO wolfball admin saying that the site is a-political while having a picture of a person who broke into the capital building as a banner, spreading COVID miss info and being nb fobic in the paragraph arguing they are not bigoted.
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Because this is our instance and we moderate however we like?
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the linked thread about
lemmy.mlwasdeletedCENSORED by the admin there, who said “a major thread 13 days ago makes the current submission a dupe” - despite that the thread 13 days ago was actually about lemmyBB, notlemmy.ml!!1!(there was also another thread linking to the lemmy github back in June, so, arguably maybe it was a dupe by their standards, but still, I think this is an obvious first amendment violation.)
Not going to justify the HN stupidity, but it is my opinion the original poster should have linked joinlemmy.ml, instead of an instance of Lemmy (lemmy.ml). Because the topic of the discussion should be the Lemmy network, rather than the lemmy.ml instance. One should avoid spreading the misconception that Lemmy and lemmy.ml are the same thing.
agreed, but it’s join-lemmy.org
Sorry, about that I was typing from (my very bad) memory. :D
