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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 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)

LMAO that's a "new" (to me) requirement, I guess they're full mask off now. They, along with their sister instance lemmygrad, and their cousin spawned from chapo trap house called hexbear, are rabid authoritarian communists (aka tankies) who want to kill people to enforce their ideals "for their own good." They honestly believe that once they take over and kill all political dissidents the state they install to accomplish this violent goal will "wither" on it's own. Clearly, they're insane and can mostly be ignored, unless the topic is entirely apolitical. Also heads up, .ml (and grad, not hexbear) are the instances run by the devs that originally made lemmy, and jerboa (the app) is made by one of them as well.

Most other instances are cool.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

So I've certainly read some leftwing stuff on lemmy but I have yet to encounter, ant current recollection, any posts / comments which advocate violence. Not saying they don’t exist but would be curious to see some examples (if you have some on hand).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

You will in time, there's plenty on [email protected]. the latest I can remember is "the French deserve a thousand Charlie Hebdos" (Charlie Hebdo being a magazine, ironically left-leaning no less, that was shot up with 12 people murdered and 11 injured for publishing a cartoon depicting Muhammed in 2015).

[–] [email protected] -3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Do you actually believe this or are you intentionally lying about what their political goals are?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Enough of them have told me by now that I believe them, yes. If you're unaware you haven't been paying enough attention or don't ask hard questions like "what will you do if someone doesn't want to give their property to your collective willingly?"