I’m not a big fan of moderation being at the whims of whoever has an agenda.

Are there lemmy instances that take moderation seriously and don’t just ban/censor people they disagree with? So far it looks like the mods in lemmy.world instances are very flippant with their moderation and I’m curious if anyone has filled the void yet for a better instance.

Edit: Thanks for everyone who tried to give a legitimate response. No thanks to those who just wanted to spout their talking points or debate the merits of freedom of speech; that was never the point of this thread.

  • Skunk@jlai.lu
    86·
    7 hours ago

    Your freedom stops where other peoples freedom start.

    All instances, except tankie ones, have freedom of speech.

    Definition varies for example between Europe and US. In Europe you have freedom FROM, in the US it’s more like freedom TO.

    Freedom TO can be dangerous as some peoples think that it means they are allowed to say hateful and harmful things. Hurting others is not freedom of speech, it’s just being the shit stain on humanity toilet paper roll and you won’t have that on lemmy. Unless by creating your own no-rules instance that will get defederated by everyone.

    But as long as you are not insulting and harming people, yeah you have freedom of speech everywhere, just the normal sane amount of freedom.

    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
      4·
      4 hours ago

      yeah, all that is bullshit.

      I’ve experienced mostly ok mods on world, but there are several that were clearly editing for their agenda.

      I got banned from news for “obvious troll is obvious”. I wasn’t trolling, I was dead fucking serious. yet, all the comments that were responding to me that were breaking actual rules were left alone.

      it’s clear to me, because I’ve experienced it, that lemmy.world is biased towards setting a narrative because it has no way to report bad mods.

      eventually it’s going to be a curated cesspool just like Reddit became.

      • Skunk@jlai.lu
        4·
        2 hours ago

        Maybe, I tend to avoid big instances and news. I also heard stuff about news.world mod so I’m not surprised about what you said.

        But I believe it is one dude on one community on one instance, there are still plenty of news community outside of world, ml and (former) grad so they are easy to avoid.

        And it doesn’t change the fact that free speech != spewing hate so if some are looking for that kind of freedom, well, they can look elsewhere.