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How good is Lemmy dealing with censorship and why does the sign-up process on lemmy.ml involve having to copy a sentence from "The Principles of Communism"? (lemm.ee)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by Social_Discussion@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Hey everyone, I'm new to Lemmy and just starting to figure this site out. I mainly moved here because of the censorship on Reddit where they didn't publish posts that included the slightest word not allowed by their filter and they removed/blocked lots of content. I wonder if it will be somewhat better here (on the official site it says "Censorship resistant - By hosting your own server, you can be in full control of your content.").

The weird thing I saw with Lemmy was when I wanted to sign-up on the "lemmy.ml" server instance that according to the official Lemmy Servers listing page is a "A community of privacy and FOSS enthusiasts, run by Lemmy’s developers".

So I thought I try that one when it's from Lemmy's own developers. When I wanted to sign-up it required an application that you needed to fill out with one of the requirements being having to copy a sentence from the link provided which links to some article called "The Principles of Communism" which I thought was very odd for a site to do. I've never seen a site like this promoting some ideology that directly where it's part of the sign-up process to almost pledge to some political or religious ideology.

This seemed very sketchy to me. Does anyone know something about this?

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[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Shitjustworks

shitjustworks is actually worse than .world. They are an actually crypto-fascist instance judging by the events the preceded our defederation with them. world is just slightly less fascistic but when it comes down to it liberalism and fascism are careening toward another singularity like what happened with the rise of the third reich in the thirties as liberals predictably treat fascists more favorably than communists.

[–] prototype_g2@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They are an actually crypto-fascist instance judging by the events the preceded our defederation with them

Crypto-fascists?! The hell did I miss?

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

brazenly transphobic, anticommunist, and white supremacist tendancies abound on that instance.