Is it not allowed or frowned upon by the mods and maintainer of Lemmy? Although I do respect the technology and services that Lemmy and its community have provided, I’m still looking for answer on the fact whether it’s ok/allowed to have a vocal and confident opposing view.

Also, within this community (China), Am I allowed to post things that opposes the chinese government, such as, not liking their attitude towards a certain island in the south east of china?

  • 10_0@lemmy.ml
    0·
    3 years ago

    Imo its ok to have that opinion, but its just where you choose to express it, i wouldn’t post anti-china memes on on lemmygrad, or !china for example. (unless you want to get downvoted)

    • ttmrichter@lemmy.ml
      31·
      3 years ago

      Perhaps the rule should be more general. Don’t post asinine “memes” of any kind anywhere. They’re puerile. It’s Kindergarten-level discourse at its best.

      • southerntofu@lemmy.ml
        12·
        3 years ago

        TIL a new word “asinine”

        Well personally i’m in favor of contrarian voices. I hate a troll as much as anyone else, but i’m happy to receive some counter-propaganda on every community i belong to. Just the other day, i published an article on /c/anarchism which advertises for the exact opposite of anarchism (top-down regulation) in order to start a debate.

        I also understand some communities who would like to stay between people who agree on certain things. But in my very personal view, that’s not what a public instance like lemmy.ml and very generic board names (like !china@lemmy.ml or !france@lemmy.ml) are for.

        EDIT: just to be clear, if there’s an explicitly stalinist forum somewhere, i’m not going to go troll them. But if there’s a generic “socialism” forum, i’ll certainly make the case that Nation-States are fundamentally incompatible with the goal of building communism.