To be more precise, people here are more like themselves and don't use self-censorship, communicating like bots.
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I self censor a ton on here, are you kidding me? I have blocked every news and politics related instance I could find and still, the instances that are left are filled with political brain rot from the most unhinged extremist black and white thinking leftists online.
The only reason I'm still here is because I have a small handful of instances that I actually enjoy frequenting, where people are trying to make a healthy environment to speak with one another and share thoughts and ideas that aren't always about politics.
The only true positive about Lemmy is that it isn't a corporate entity with carefully curated ads, algorithms and tons of bots. However, Lemmy is proof that the corporate model has trained us all so well over the past decade to think that being online is all about getting mad at politics and each other so we are basically perpetuating the bullshit trends they started like the brain dead lemmings we are.
To me Lemmy is no different than any other social media platform that thrives on hate, yet somehow thinks its unique and/or enlightened. It's a shame because there a lot of potential here to make something that unites people instead of continuing the echo chamber model that the big corporations have worked hard to put us all in because it earns them money to keep us angry with one another.
But whatever. All these "big thinkers" on here thinks their time is best spend screaming at each other and calling everyone they disagree with a fascist so who cares about trying to build a better online community? I'll keep blocking shit until I only have the productive instances left.
Avoiding topics isn't self-censorship. It's when you curtail your own expression, so stuff like f*#@ or even euphemisms like "heck".
OP was probably referring to the annoying trend of memes with censored words like "sex" or "kill".
These get posted all the time, but at least there's always a couple people calling out OP for being lazy.
Sure, blocking people and instances isn't exactly self censorship, but it was something I started doing after experiencing multiple instances of people attacking me for words I used, assuming I was a fascist for using a word they apparently got triggered by and completely ignoring and flat out lying about the context of me using the word in my comment. One time it was the word woke. Apparently you can't write that in any comment in any context without being a fascist to these idiots.
It was a very disappointing experience to be attacked like that by people who would twist the observable truth to make shit up about you when this was supposed to be a place where people could talk freely. So I started avoiding topics and using certain words while on here even after blocking instances and people. Mostly because I just don't feel like having to deal with psychotic retards who think reality and context doesn't matter and that anything to the right of total communist domination is fascism. . . Which is a bit ironic, ngl.
But sure, if people want to focus on words like sex or kill as a bar for Lemmy not having self censorship, they can enjoy that delusion. My personal experience is that having any opinion that isn't pro violent revolution and using words deemed no-no words by the brainrotted masses, makes you free game to harass and attack and lie about.
I have, to put it very frankly, never truly met as unhinged and unpleasant people online as I have here. The closest I have gotten in the past was when I was observing the self implosion of the online alt right in 2018. They might be able to compete with Lemmy leftists as being some of the most unhinged and divorced from reality nutcases I have met online. And when you find yourself surrounded by people like that, you will self censor or stay entirely silent until you have removed yourself fully from their orbit.