Lemmy.world sucks anyways. May as well just use reddit if you are going there.
that has been my opinion as well based on recent experience. I didn’t leave reddit for more toxic mods
Yep! It was toxic before the election. Even more toxic now.
Leave. Different instance.
Report, Confront (non emotionally), Expose
Regarding AskLemmy, it was because you were (allegedly) openly calling for violence. I don’t necessarily agree with that either but I can understand the rationale much more easily.
There are some laws in the books where the instance could become open to legal liability if a Lemming actually did murder somebody and they traced back their activity on Lemmy and found similar comments. It seems ridiculous but that’s what admins sometimes worry about.
According to some cursory reading, Section 230 of the US legal code provides near total immunity to providers, hosts, and moderators of illegal content. However, the statute is still subject to changing interpretations. More importantly, this wide ranging protection of free speech does not apply for most other countries’ legal systems. I believe lemmy.world is hosted somewhere in Europe, and they may be concerned that not removing explicit calls to violence could leave them open to legal retribution.
It’s really not that hard to get your point across without crossing the line of actually calling for violence. You can express the most vitriolic opinions and hatred towards anyone you want and you’ll be legally protected, but once you cross that line towards direct threats on a specific individual, you’re exposing everyone on here to the threat of legal action. It’s not even like Lemmy instances can afford good lawyers, we would be fucked if anyone ever went after us for that.
I believe lemmy.world is hosted somewhere in Europe
It is. German hoster, Finnish server, Dutch admins.
Maybe we should put it on [email protected].
That is good to know, thank you for that. But maybe if we are worried about legal issues we should avoid posting that information widely 😅
It’s publicly available in the ToS
Our Governing Laws
The website and the agreement will be governed by and construed per the laws of the following countries and/or states:
The Netherlands
Republic of Finland
Federal Republic of GermanyNobody reads that anyway
Even more of a reason to point people to it. My point was that LW are really OK with people knowing which laws they are subject to, it was also in their announcement post Luigi
That’s fair, I guess it cuts both ways. If people are aware of what laws they are subject to, maybe they will cool off. But somehow I doubt that will happen.
You won’t be the first to post there about that
[email protected]/t/520433
Exactly my issue!
Hm, the link doesn’t work for me. Usually you can use the 🔗 icon next to a thread or comment to link to it. Don’t worry about the instance, people just have to look, not comment
For some reason uploading photos isn’t working. Any tips? I did try to post there but without photos it’s not helpful.
I’m going to message the mod, based on what I see in the modlog I don’t understand what they were thinking by removing your posts.
They said
Tailscale is networking
Seems like overmoderation to me although I don’t know enough about networking or self hosting to be sure
