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Plenty of accounts that I see commenting here regularly. Not "big accounts" per se but rather just people I seem to be running into constantly. This is such a small platform that it's pretty easy to get niche fame. That's why I'm on my 10th account.
You’re on your tenth account because you’re worried that people will get a sense of who you are and what you stand for?
I've had to deal with a stalker in the past. After that, I learned not to put all my eggs into one basket. If someone recognizes me here they won't get acces to my entire message history now.
Makes sense! I’m sorry that happened to you, and thanks for sharing.
this is lemmy we're talking about. There's as much censorship as reddit, just opposite political sides
This is manifestly untrue. You can stand up an instance and literally no-one can censor you.
Lmao. 'There is no censorship, you jus have to leave, make your own space and do whatever you want.'
That is censorship.
I run a personal website where I host my resume. Is it censorship that I don’t allow you to post there, either?
You mean in the website that you host, that only you can edit? Wtf are you even talking about?
Yep, that one. How is it different to say that I have to let you post anything you want on the lemmy instance that I host than to say I have to let you post anything you want on my personal website that I host?
Obviously meant through a regular account on your average instance
And yea you can be censored through defederation
It’s not censorship when I decide I don’t want to host your speech on my site. Censorship is when the government says you can’t host speech at all.
Edit: to elaborate:
If you mail a letter to your local newspaper and they do not run it, that isn’t censorship. If you mail a photograph to a magazine and they do not print it, that isn’t censorship. If you send a clip to a tv station and they don’t air it, that isn’t censorship. If you send a movie to your local movie theater and they don’t show it, that isn’t censorship. If you send a song to your local radio station and they don’t play it, that isn’t censorship. If you send a post to a Lemmy instance and they don’t host it, that isn’t censorship.
Censorship is not only a government thing AT ALL. There are different uses of the word censorship.
Literally the first lines of Wikipedia
It’s one thing not to accept an article on a newspaper which is only meant to accept a couple articles, and many of them having a clear and assumed editor line; and another to remove after publishing a comment or post on a public discussion forum, often claiming freedom of speech, because the admins do not agree with that the person says for political reasons.
If there’s an editor line, then publicly assume it and make it clear when it’s an online discussion forum: reveal your biases.
Considering how ml keeps only temp banning me instead of perm banning, I would say it's significantly less than reddit
Would the same speech have gotten you banned from Reddit as a whole?
None of my Reddit accounts has been banned (but I must say I didn’t talk about political or debate subjects), while on Lemmy I have received a couple instance bans in the past, and no, I didn’t insult anyone
I've been banned from reddit when I talked about how murdering health care ceos and executives would be effective
Deserved
I mean, somewhat. But it was in a context that was not advocating for their deaths. So eh
That changes everything then but I guess not everyone thought the same
Yeah. Honestly I forget exactly what I said, but it was around the time I was calling people out for talking a lot of smack on the internet, and not actually advocating for effective solutions that were actually doable instead of what I saw as effective solutions that no one would implement, ie killing healthcare executives.