I had considered setting up an account on beehaw, but the no downvotes thing really bothers me. Plus it still has the no NSFW problem. There’s only a couple people I’ve seen so far on lemmy.ml that post Russian and Chinese propaganda that I’ve had to block, but I also understand that they aren’t technically violating the rules of the server so there’s nothing the admins can (or should) do in those cases. I’m a strong believer in freedom of speech so I’m against censorship in general however I also feel that the corollary to that is that nobody should be subjected to something without their consent. If it becomes more of a problem I might look for a different server, but unfortunately lemmy.ml is one of the biggest instances so many of the communities I’m interested in are based out of it. Even if I registered elsewhere I think I’d still end up subscribed to several of its communities.
Longer term, I feel as if the federation model of lemmy is slightly misaligned. Like the communities and users should be more decoupled or something. I don’t know, don’t have a good solution, just a general feeling like all the pieces don’t quite fit together right currently, but they’re close.
My problem isn’t so much that the weird authoritarian communist propaganda isn’t spread there, there’s bound to be a legacy of course, but the fact the moderation team doesn’t seem to consider it an issue. It’s quite disappointing because it is indeed the biggest server with the most communities.
I think a lot of issues with how Lemmy works could’ve been avoided if it didn’t make all of your posts available to everyone on the server and if it didn’t automatically sync all communities for everyone if just one user subscribes to a foreign community. I can see why they chose this model (more transparent and more efficient, and also more compatible with the wider Fediverse) but it’ll take some getting used to.
At least Jerboa has multi user support, that makes the “multiple accounts for multiple purposes” workaround a lot easier even if it’s not exactly great.
I had considered setting up an account on beehaw, but the no downvotes thing really bothers me. Plus it still has the no NSFW problem. There’s only a couple people I’ve seen so far on lemmy.ml that post Russian and Chinese propaganda that I’ve had to block, but I also understand that they aren’t technically violating the rules of the server so there’s nothing the admins can (or should) do in those cases. I’m a strong believer in freedom of speech so I’m against censorship in general however I also feel that the corollary to that is that nobody should be subjected to something without their consent. If it becomes more of a problem I might look for a different server, but unfortunately lemmy.ml is one of the biggest instances so many of the communities I’m interested in are based out of it. Even if I registered elsewhere I think I’d still end up subscribed to several of its communities.
Longer term, I feel as if the federation model of lemmy is slightly misaligned. Like the communities and users should be more decoupled or something. I don’t know, don’t have a good solution, just a general feeling like all the pieces don’t quite fit together right currently, but they’re close.
My problem isn’t so much that the weird authoritarian communist propaganda isn’t spread there, there’s bound to be a legacy of course, but the fact the moderation team doesn’t seem to consider it an issue. It’s quite disappointing because it is indeed the biggest server with the most communities.
I think a lot of issues with how Lemmy works could’ve been avoided if it didn’t make all of your posts available to everyone on the server and if it didn’t automatically sync all communities for everyone if just one user subscribes to a foreign community. I can see why they chose this model (more transparent and more efficient, and also more compatible with the wider Fediverse) but it’ll take some getting used to.
At least Jerboa has multi user support, that makes the “multiple accounts for multiple purposes” workaround a lot easier even if it’s not exactly great.
Just chiming in to thank both of you for that interesting discussion