This will take place ~24 hours from now. Feel free to post and upvote questions beforehand in this post, as it will turn into the AMA tomorrow.
This is a chance for any users, admins, or developers to ask anything they’d like to myself, @nutomic@lemmy.ml , @SleeplessOne1917@lemmy.ml , or @phiresky@lemmy.ml about Lemmy, its future, and wider issues about the social media landscape today.
Why should there not be right wing subs? Would we not just be becoming like Reddit by banning them?
important context: Lemm ee has a conservative c/ run by a pedophile who the admin of that instance protects.
Do you think the problem with Reddit was that they removed the_Donald?
Regardless, this should be an instance decisions and others are free to defederate with any instance hosting content they don’t want to see. Just like what happened to exploding heads.
Not soviet, but that removal was unpopular for a reason.
I don’t think it should be an instance decision. The best part about the fediverse is that we can pick and choose what we want to see.
How do you see this playing out? Instances are free to set and enforce their own rules and standards. You can’t force them to host content they don’t want to.
The way it plays out is
I don’t know what mental model someone is working from to draw such a conclusion. A free speech absolutist one? A consumer rights one? 🤷
Whether there should be right wing comms is up to an instance’s admins, and whether other instances should federate with it is up to the admins of other instances.
As for
absolutism, consider the paradox of tolerance.
The USian obsession with free speech comes from the over-application of a first amendment right. That freedom is in fact a restriction on the State to suppress speech, and not a restriction on Lemmy mods or admins.