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  • gelberhut@lemdro.idtoFediverse@lemmy.worldIs lemmy.ml turn into authoritarian?
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    1 year ago

    except of course keeping it legal

    This is also up to them. If the admins are ok to get corresponding consequences - they can do this.

    Posts like this posted here from time to time.

    And I think the main problem is: the fact that an instance has a very strong political view and even a censorship becomes a big surprise for people using this exact instance.

    It looks like an instance and community policies must be somehow better visible.




  • You have many good points here. Still, I have a feeling that Lemmy as a platform and as a software is still very coupled with its creators.

    Yes, there are other contributors as well. But these guys currently own the official repo and make key decisions. And if you donate to Lemmy you pay a salary to these two guys (afaik, Lemmy is their full-time work these days).

    So, for me, it is still rather complicated.








  • Definitely. Am German living abroad, so it’s a great instance for keeping up with local stuff.

    Then feddit.de sounds like a best choice for you :). BTW, you do not need to have an account on feddit.de to subscribe and participate any community “hosted” there. So keeping up with local stuff is relatively instance independent (but there are nuances, still :( )

    As for privacy, I don’t expect anything to be private anywhere on the internet. But for a lemmy instance I’d hope that the admins are a) running it on secure infrastructure (firewalled, etc.) and b) they’re not just handing off email addresses to the biggest bidder.

    I see. For me this sounds like security, rather then privacy. Anyways, I assume that feddit.de meets your criteria again - it is hosted in Germany and, as far as I remember, says that follows German laws (what covers “reasonable” security/privacy requirement).