I just got a ban for “encouraging violence”. Someone asked “what will you do to celebrate when he dies?” Someone else started talking about how they have a fantasy about getting the death note and how they’d put that to use. I chimed in with my silly fantasy of using a seance to end politicians’ careers by getting them possessed by the ghost of GG Allin, and enjoying the mayhem that would ensue.
So, anyway, right after that, I found out that all the people who were so transgressive to have actually liked that comment of mine can, as of a couple days ago, expect punishment as well. How draconian.
And so that was that. No sense in being lorded over on the internet by the same people who run HOAs. It’ll be fun watching Reddit flush itself down the toilet from over here, I expect.
Some home countries that host many of the instances on lemmy have pretty rigid rules for what constitutes promoting violence. Many of the mods/admins are just doing what they can to ensure the lights stay on by removing posts/comments that violate these rules.
Would be nice with a list of that somewhere so users can choose what kind of moderation culture/country laws fits their own personality.
Some users definently wants to be protected from content they dont like, but some feel equally strongly they they can handle it without a internet daddy.
Its a bit like how rich people use swiss banks to get to keep their money, since they dont agree that the country they are born in should take a large cut of their profits.
There is info and ToS on each instance’s main page.
I think you mean lemmy.world now and not the general fediverse.