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Ban evasion is an immediate permanent ban on our instance, regardless of whether you are evading a temporary or permanent ban. We have a 3-4 strike system meaning that every user will get at least 2 warnings explaining the strike they are given before being banned from our instance, in your case you were given 3 warnings.

We are not going to publicly share the content that lead to your initial permanent ban without your consent, but if you want to discuss the issue, you can contact us on Discord or Matrix. You can also DM an admin's matrix profile.

I'll leave you profile open for a few hours so that you can hopefully see this comment before I ban this account for ban evasion.

This is typically a question asked by bigots of one flavor or another so it's hard to answer the question unless you give a concrete example of something you may like to say that you're afraid would be censored.

Depends what you mean by 'free speech'.

Generally, almost every instance has more relaxed rules than you'd find on reddit, but they all do have rules. You'll want to pick an instance that shares the same ideas as you about what is and isn't acceptable to say.

While most Lemmy and Piefed instances are not tolerant of hate speech (sexism, racism, transphobia, homophobia, xenophobia, etc.) disguised as 'free speech', most other rules are enforced at the community (subreddit) level.

In terms of picking an instance, I wouldn't recommend lemmygrad.ml, lemmy.ml, or hexbear.net due to their extreme views. Of the remainder, I recommend choosing one from the Lemmy Federate list; those with auto-add (not discuss.tchncs.de, among others) automatically federate new communities to ensure they are searchable.

For maximum access, I also wouldn't recommend choosing instances that are defederated from at least one other major instance (beehaw.org, lemmy.world, sh.itjust.works, lemmy.dbzer0.com, quokk.au, anarchist.nexus, feddit.org, and lemmynsfw.com; fedinsfw.app is new and seemingly not defederated yet from major instances, but might get defederated by non-NSFW instances).

Taking the above recommendations into account, this leaves us with the following Lemmy and Piefed instances with over 250 or 100 monthly active users:

[Lemmy] (250+ MAU)

• lemmy.zip
• lemmy.ca
• lemmy.blahaj.zone
• programming.dev
• sopuli.xyz
• lemmy.today
• feddit.uk
• infosec.pub
• reddthat.com

[Piefed] (100+ MAU)

• piefed.social
• piefed.ca
• piefed.blahaj.zone
• piefed.world
• feddit.online

(tap the Lemmy/Piefed links to view the full lists)

A key point of differentiation between instances is which instances they choose to defederate; this controls which instances you're able to find content from. You can use the Federation Checker to find this list for any given instance.

Ultimately, review the policies and focus of any given instance to find the one that suits your preferences best.

If you want to go off of purely "free speech", probably one of the top defederated instances. There is a reason these instances are so often defederated: all of the problems that are caused by having little to no restrictions.