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I had such a hard time explaining to someone today that there is no universal set of Lemmy rules/politics and you can run your own instance with literally 0 rules
people have forgotten that things can exist outside of the few billionaire/trillionaire closed source walled gardens they've become so reliant on
Yeah, I think that's great. I think it's awesome that something like Lemmygrad can exist, while also a community criticizing Lemmygrad (there are several) all on the same platform, and without any real central control.
If you don't want to see certain content, you can block it and move on, while getting the benefits of federation.
I joined communities from a half dozen instances, and I'll probably join communities from even more as I get better at finding communities.
The communities trying to pillarize the entire fediverse over calling lemmygrad hate speech are, however, not a great thing. Undermining the interconnectedness of the platform at scale by agitating on other platforms that they blacklist or be blacklisted under false pretenses may as well be precision-engineered to negate what is useful about the platform.
liberals crave control over the narrative, which is what they enjoyed at reddit with the site admins putting their thumbs on the scales for their opinions
But isn't that the benefit of the platform? If you want a safe space, you can block what you don't like. If you want more openness, you can have that too. And if a community you used to engage with goes dark, you still have the rest of the communities.
I'm on an instance blocked by beehaw, so I don't see new posts, but I can still go directly to the instance in read only mode to see that content. Maybe they'll block that too at some point, but surely that would hurt their userbase. I can still engage with a lot of other people, so I just turn my attention elsewhere.
That's certainly better than something like Reddit, no? On Reddit, if a community goes dark, there's nothing you can do to see the old content aside from looking up archive.org. On lemmy, you still have that old content, you just don't see new stuff.