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Russian Trolls moderating Lemmy communities post anti-voting propaganda, then censor/ban you when you point it out (imgur.com)
submitted 1 month ago by to c/justpost@lemmy.world
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Lemmy has it's share of trolls, but we also have our share of russian propaganda trying to influence our election. This specific moderator of a very large Lemmy community (LateStageCapitalism) has been posting "democrats are actually the fascists!" memes, while banning/censoring everyone who speaks out in favor of the very people attempting to thwart the literal fascist regime in power right now.

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[–] -1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I think Lemmy is to the left of Reddit personally, there seems to be a lot more tankies, commies, Hollywood democrats, and so on, and less of everybody else. Even party-line Democrats are rare (or quiet).

I wish they wouldn't ban all of the rightoids, but it's theirs, not mine. I could always go to Trump's to find one.

I'm okay with even actual Russians posting, it's the mod banning/censorship abuse that bothers me. But this is not a free speech platform, I don't know if there is one.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 month ago

    I mean, in a sense it is a free speech platform. The mods of any given instance can ban you, sure, but there exists no instance or higher authority in the network that can ban you from lemmy or the fediverse as a whole, even if every single instance were to hypothetically ban you at the same time, you could still spin up your own instance and host your account there. They could all defederate and stop talking to it, but they couldnt stop you from still posting there and getting seen by anyone else that wanted to join it or connect their instance with yours.

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