Moderation has gotten out of control on the internet, where people abuse their powers to perpetuate narratives they like while censoring ones they don’t.

Where can I find lemmy instances that support freedom of speech? It’s fine if you don’t like it or have issues with it (feel free to move on without a reply!)

Update: Thanks to the recommendation of @occultist8128@infosec.pub, I checked the blocked instances of lemmy.world and found https://welppp.com/

I just came across it, so it may not actually support freedom of speech, but it looks promising.

If anyone has alternatives, still feel free to share them 🙂

  • cannedtuna@lemmy.world
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    Please understand that “freedom of speech” does not mean that your speech is more important than the next persons. If you decide to start spewing hateful, racist, bigoted shit, the next person has the right to tell you to fuck off and block you, or ban you if it’s their instance. This isn’t treading on your freedom of expression or suppressing your speech, this is simply the other person exercising their right to not have to hear your shit and choosing instead to show you the door.

    For example, if you invite someone into your home and they start spouting shit, you have the right to show them the door as you don’t have to listen to them go off in your home and around your guests. Similarly if you’re banned for not following the rules of an instance you’re not “being suppressed” you’re just a cunt.

    Want to talk shit from a realm of safety without being called out? Do it from your own home where people don’t have to be around you. Make your own instance, or find a like-minded cesspool willing to put up with you.

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        Damn that was a quick reply.

        Don’t particularly care about the point of your thread.

        Simply providing context since you seem to be confused as to why you can’t find a home based on your replies in this thread.

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    Here at db0 is about as free as you can get…

    EXCEPT.

    If your definition of “free speech” is “I want to be racist or homophobic”, which I suspect this is, go kick rocks loser.

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      I’m interested in servers where other people are allowed to express their views, bigoted as they may be.

      go kick rocks loser.

      If you don’t have an answer, you could always move on to another thread instead of insulting me. Reported.

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            Sure it is.

            And even if it weren’t that doesn’t make your comment about you getting butt hurt from someone telling you to be better for seeking out where you can be a bigot any less ironic.

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              This isn’t one of those instances where freedom of speech is allowed.

              Be respectful of others.

              Gonna ignore you now since you don’t have an answer to my question.

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          Be respectful of others.

          I guess we just have “Jim Crow” rules where mods pick and choose who to enforce them for 🤷

          Another reason why I want an instance that doesn’t leave it up to the ‘whims’ of whoever is moderating to decide what gets to stay.

          You end up with places like this that blatantly allow personal insults as long as you’re insulting the “correct” people.

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              Thank you. I was referring to the user I reported.

              He’s clearly breaking a rule, but I suspect the mods won’t care because he’s on “their side.”

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                I’m not sure what language you seek to use, but generally speaking, people don’t like to be called offensive terms.

                I mean, if I want to identify as a [redacted] [redacted] [redacted] pregnant penguin, that’s my business. But it helps everyone’s morale to try to avoid bad words and offensive language.

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    Pretty much any Lemmy instances I suspect supports freedom of speech. There’s not really any evidence that admins are colluding with the feds to control what you say.

    What may be happening is admins deciding of their own volition to not platform certain types of comments. Notably that doesn’t stop you or anyone else from saying whatever; it just means you gotta do it somewhere else, like your own instance.

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      I’m interested in servers where other people are allowed to express their views, bigoted as they may be.

      If you don’t have an answer, feel free to move on to another thread.

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        Perhaps you should rephrase your post then to indicate you’re actually interested in bigotry affirming instances instead of instances that refrain from being a government entity that controls expression.

        They are different.

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    I checked the blocked instances of lemmy.world and found https://welppp.com/

    Looking at the trust and safety about the instance, and reading your replies, it sounds like it will be the perfect fit for you.

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    Moderation has gotten out of control on the internet, where people abuse their powers to perpetuate narratives they like while censoring ones they don’t.

    As long as you dont be a dick or be racist you won’t be censored.

    What type of things do you think are censored on lemmy?

    I checked the blocked instances of lemmy.world and found https://welppp.com/ I just came across it, so it may not actually support freedom of speech, but it looks promising.

    Yikes… You sure about this OP?

    long string of images

    And that’s just one unbanned user.

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      That’s not true, but I’m not here to debate it.

      If you people don’t have an answer, feel free to move on to another thread.

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        Again, please answer: What type of things do you think are censored on lemmy? Note i’m not trying to assume anything about you, i’m genuinely asking.

        Stay away from lemmy.ml and you’ll mostly be fine.

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          I’m interested in servers where other people are allowed to express their views, bigoted as they may be.

          If you don’t have an answer, feel free to move on to another thread.

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            I’m interested in servers where other people are allowed to express their views, bigoted as they may be

            Then there is none, at all. You won’t find it on the fediverse, the closest thing to what you described is 4chan.

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                I didn’t know that, thanks. But since most are defederated that kind of defeats the whole point. Makes sense though.

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              That’s not true, there are instances they are completely out nearly completely detached from the main cluster

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              That’s disappointing.

              It seems like the decentralized nature of the fediverse would encourage instances that go against the grain to exist.

              I’m still holding out that the instances are out there, just being suppressed by those who hate freedom of speech.

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                there are many actually, what you’re looking for are mostly defederated since it’s pure free speech and has no limit. just look after it on google.

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    Hilarious chaos has been pretty cool in this regard. I like that the admins don’t take themselves seriously and are very active here.

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    You can pay to get into communick.news or start your own instance.

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      Thanks, but I’m not interested in paying to get in.

      I would like an instance to be as open as possible. Restricting creating new communities to admins doesn’t fly.

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        Freedom of speech never existed and as a rule can never exist. It’s an idea that has never been and will never be a reality. This is not to agree or disagree with whatever speech you don’t want censored. There is no place/time/environment where you can say whatever you want without some form of consequences from some subset of people.

        Freedom of speech is and has always been a fantasy.

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          I’m not here to argue with you.

          If you don’t have an answer and just want to debate what is or is not freedom of speech, feel free to move on to another thread.

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            If you don’t have an answer and just want to debate what is or is not freedom of speech, feel free to move on to another thread.

            What happened to “freedom of speech”, eh bud?