• @[email protected]
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    423 hours ago

    Maybe we need to start moving to instances where we won’t be banned for saying that stuff.

    Isn’t the fediverse supposed to be resistant to censorship?

    • @[email protected]
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      112 hours ago

      You’re welcome to run your own, if you’re willing to handle the FBI or equivalent agency knocking on your door when one of your users makes a threat.

    • @[email protected]
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      222 hours ago

      Theoretically yes, but the mods can still be corrupt. For example, we could go to your, ML, and be censored for talking about China in any way but positive. Even if it is pointing out the very very real event that happened at Tiananmen Square. Or, that China is not in the slightest bit communist.

      Perhaps they will yell at me about genocide in order to get me not to vote so that Trump will win and they will be successful in overthrowing the west?

      So, yes…. We ALL need to find an instance with no mods. There may be some rough talk, but at least we would be free.

      • @TrickDacy
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        421 hours ago

        That’s called 4chan. You want 4chan.

        • @[email protected]
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          -121 hours ago

          We can have an open place to talk here too. The problem is who controls what is allowed, and what are their motivations? What we need is an instance that doesn’t allow signups, or community creation. Anyone can participate, but if can’t be defederalized because of bad users, like ML, hexbear, etc.

          With no moderation (except spam), a small group of mods cannot control the message.

          • Doug Holland
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            215 hours ago

            Can’t have the kind of free speech you’re hoping for, on a public forum, without also welcoming Nazis and child molesters and long rants about Lizard-people.

              • Doug Holland
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                Are there religious-themed lizard-people enthusiasts? Silly question. Of course there are religious-themed lizard-people enthusiasts, though I am blissfully unaware of them (a fine state to be).

                But I was thinking of my favorite wingnut conspiracy theorist and godfather of QAnon, David Icke, who thinks (or thought? certainly I hope he’s dead by now) lizard-people rule the earth. For Icke, it’s political, though, more than religious.

                There are no limits to human stupidity. (But that’s what the reptiles want me to say, and I must follow their orders.)

          • @TrickDacy
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            320 hours ago

            And I’m saying that would just be a 4chan clone and that’s bad for a list of reasons I shouldn’t even need to rehash