Thought I would share here the instance I have setup on Lemmy to promote the truth and to fight censorship online.

I have enabled federation on my instance and have added lemmy.ml communities to it. Feel free to take a look!

  • seahorse [Ohio]A
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    23 years ago

    I disagree, but another reason to block this is because I know where this new age garbage leads to. It leads to stuff like QAnon and BS conspiracy theories about lizard people. I used to sort of be into this stuff back in college.

    • @xarvos@lemmy.ml
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      43 years ago

      I agree, there is too much bad smells from this instance, starting from the arrogant title.

      • @punctual@lemmy.mlOP
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        23 years ago

        Freedom is different to everyone. For example I own a car, I now have the freedom to drive around, but I sacrafice that with having to pay for the car.

        Or I don’t own a car, I now have the freedom of buying more clothes, but don’t have the freedom to drive around.

        Its quite deep the concept of freedom. But what I was referring to when I said freedom was freedom from the censorship that goes on at places like Twitter and Facebook and Reddit etc. Is some of the censorship that goes on good? Yeah some of it is, but obviously we the users don’t have any say on what goes and what stays - its up to the platform.

        Its an inherient issue in free speech, because yes I have free speech, but does that give me the right to knowingly spread misinformation? Does censoring misinformation hinder free speech? You could argue it does. No I’m not saying that my instance will spread misinformation - quite the opposite I want it to be a small group of free thinkers who are searching for the truth in the world.

        In my view banning a certain set of information and not looking at the facts just creates echo chambers of similar information and so people become hooked consuming information they are familiar with and daring to go outside anything that doesn’t conform to information they already know.

        Its said that for new information to be accepted we must have pigeon holes to store that information, if we don’t we can’t accept that information. So I understand why people are so quick to block my new instance.

        On another note it amazes me how so many people gladly accept vaccine passports when they are most facist thing that has entered the planet. We need a pass that says we have had an experimental drug injected into us (yes its an experimental drug look it up, this isn’t me being anti vax although no doubt you will accuse me anyway) so that we can do the most basic human things such as go shopping, go to restaurants, fly to foreign countries. This is tyranny and opression on another level! You could even argue that this is not dissimilar to the segregation that happened in America with the Black folks (granted a bit different because its someones choice to get a vaccine)