Lemmy.ca Support / Questions

We have had multiple communities of that nature, all heavily downvoted. A previous example was Geopolitics where Russian and Conservative narratives were pushed daily. Eventually the creator, poster and community mod gave up, left and deleted it.

You can always block communities or instances that you don't want to see. Every instance has its own policy on what types of communities are allowed, and how strict they must align with admin values.

I frequently disagree with Russian apologists, but pre-emptive restriction of viewpoints I don't like doesn't make for good discussion, even if in my eyes many of the arguments are on dubious ground. You see many complaints of lemmy.world and lemmy.ml admins enforcing certain policies and worldviews sitewide, which is fine for them to do, but not every server has to ascribe to that. Some servers restrict community creation to mods/admins, some like beehaw.org have a limited but curated set of communities. [email protected] is a hotbed of clown-take articles, doesn't mean I think they should be banned.

If you see posts with harmful misinformation, or harmful behaviour by the mod of such a community, please report it to the lemmy.ca admins. Demonstrating a pattern of harmful behaviour with evidence will get the mod and community banned.

I vehemently disagree with an article posted there that having their experimental Mach-whatever missiles means that Russia and China's going to get everything they want in a conflict, to me it's a total bluff. But it was written by a Canadian so it would seem it belongs there, even if it is indeed a blatantly pro-Russian narrative.

Perhaps as a solution going forward: new communities start as private communities for the instance only, and then upon admin review and approval can be federated to other instances?