I’m sorry some posts are being removed from this community. It is the actions of the Lemmy blahaj zone admins. There’s nothing we can do to prevent this. I suggest changing your instance to a better one.
Update: Blahaj blocked NCD
I’m sorry some posts are being removed from this community. It is the actions of the Lemmy blahaj zone admins. There’s nothing we can do to prevent this. I suggest changing your instance to a better one.
Update: Blahaj blocked NCD
The fact that the instance is named after an IKEA product was enough reason for me not to make an account there…
I get it, the shark plush is cute. Just a bit too…consumer? For me
My limited understanding is that there’s an association between the shark’s colors and the trans flag, and that this predates that instance in the trans world.
Honestly, I don’t even care if people want to run a censored instance – like, some people legitimately do not want to see some content – but I do think that they should be clear that they are doing so, which it sounds like they were not in this case.
Also does make one wonder whether other material might be missing on other topics from other communities.
ponders
As a general solution to making instance censorship visible, I suppose that it’d be technically-possible to write a bot that could spider Threadiverse instances and look for discrepancies between views of a community, provide a summary of instance censorship activity. If an admin wanted to silently censor content and wanted to go to enough work to make the censorship silent, they could try to identify the bot and only show posts to it, but I imagine that it’d be more work, especially if it acted anonymously and from a VPN.
As a bonus, that could also flag post propagation problems of the sort I mentioned elsewhere in this thread, kind of be a “Threadiverse health monitor”.
Regardless of the origin, it’s still a bit too close to corporate worship for me.
And as shitty as it is to selectively filter posts like that, I don’t think it’s a problem worth creating a bot for track. OP calling it out to make others aware was the right thing to do - let the users there decide if they care.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to create my own instance: McChicken.zone