Did the admins poll the community about it? Why was such measure so needed? If the tankie content is so annoying why not let users decide what they want to see or not and what they want to block?
I don’t like that the admins want to censor the content I can view or not. You guys are not protecting us nor doing us a favor, you’re imposing your views over everyone else by limiting the information we are able to receive.
I don’t support the devs views or the views in lemmygrad, but this is a dangerous precedent.
I’ve read several of the “arguments” for blocking the instance and all I can see is a bunch of people talking about politics and arguing about “floods in the frontpage”. Well, let the user block communities if that’s the case, same way I’m already blocking communities I’m not interested.
I think the admins want to feel like Facebook moderation. I’d be OK with it if any instance repeatedly generated spam, security, doxxing or any other concern that couldn’t be solved by banning individuals, otherwise it’s just plain censorship.
I just don’t want the admins to use their power to decide what I can see or not. If this is going to be like this, I’ll leave for a better instance because I can see where this is going to.
So, a political thing? And why I’m not allowed to see denialist content? Am I a baby? You feel like a baby that needs parental control from admins?
Sorry for the hostility but that’s what this boils down to. Admin decisions over users. And I don’t care about whatever political/worldview controversy they use to base their abuse of power.
Thanks for pointing the obvious but this is about having a conversation. Users should not let admins impose their views and accept it as normal. That’s why subreddit mods where acting like tyrants.
Even if I create an acc in another instance and forget about this one, I raised questions. You guys are free to draw your conclusions.
What’s the line, though? No content should ever be moderated/removed? I’m sure there is a topic or viewpoint you have no interest in being inundated with that is fine for someone else. If there isn’t, that’s abnormal based on my personal experience.
Yes, I regularly block communities from my feed. It is my decision. I am not delegating this decision to the admins. What’s the line? I already mentioned: overall security, spam, legal issues, totally fine to me.
All I’m doing is to ask questions and express discomfort about the server owner restricting my access and you guys get all defensive
I also know how to create an account in several instances. It’s not about technical issues, it is about the culture.
The stuff they post gets put into the servers in your instance, if its illegal the instance owner might be liable, and lemmygrad stuff is straight up illegal in many places genocide denial for example, also their brigading is very annoying and hard to moderate.
That seems reasonable if that’s the case. In the future I’d like to be part of a community where if admins take such decisions bordering censorship, they have a public log explaining why they do it. Legal, hosting issues, spam, are all valid reasons to me. I guess at this size it’s also reasonable to lack such protocols, but it’s important to have them.
