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How good is Lemmy dealing with censorship and why does the sign-up process on lemmy.ml involve having to copy a sentence from "The Principles of Communism"? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Social_Discussion@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Hey everyone, I'm new to Lemmy and just starting to figure this site out. I mainly moved here because of the censorship on Reddit where they didn't publish posts that included the slightest word not allowed by their filter and they removed/blocked lots of content. I wonder if it will be somewhat better here (on the official site it says "Censorship resistant - By hosting your own server, you can be in full control of your content.").

The weird thing I saw with Lemmy was when I wanted to sign-up on the "lemmy.ml" server instance that according to the official Lemmy Servers listing page is a "A community of privacy and FOSS enthusiasts, run by Lemmy’s developers".

So I thought I try that one when it's from Lemmy's own developers. When I wanted to sign-up it required an application that you needed to fill out with one of the requirements being having to copy a sentence from the link provided which links to some article called "The Principles of Communism" which I thought was very odd for a site to do. I've never seen a site like this promoting some ideology that directly where it's part of the sign-up process to almost pledge to some political or religious ideology.

This seemed very sketchy to me. Does anyone know something about this?

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[–] scytale@lemm.ee 17 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Join us at lemm.ee. It’s as neutral as can be, the admin is cool, and they leave blocking to the users instead of just defederating outright.

[–] Bureaucrat@hexbear.net 0 points 6 days ago

lmao at believing a site is "neutral". Just because you do not perceive your bias does not mean it is not present

[–] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

neutral meaning "makes space for fascists and genocidal liberals"

[–] frauddogg@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

Settlers and nazi bars go hand in hand to my understanding.

[–] lud@lemm.ee -5 points 1 week ago

Lol, what are the hexies mad about now?

[–] Silentiea@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

OP was already posting from Lemm.ee

[–] scytale@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

Lol I didn’t realize because my app doesn’t show the user’s instance in the post. Either way, I invite anyone else who can’t decide on an instance yet to consider lemm.ee.

[–] beneeney@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

You're right, that Sunaurus admin guy is pretty cool.