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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 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 day ago (2 children)

.ml is actually Mali's TLD. That it happens to also be an initialism for Marxism-Leninism is a coincidence.

[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That they picked it specifically is not a coincidence, though.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Right, but .ml doesn't stand for Marxist-Leninist is the thrust of what I'm saying.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Except it does stand for that in this context. It's like saying "the TV in twitch.tv doesn't stand for television, it's Tuvalu", like, yes the ccTLD tv is Tuvalu's, but twitch wouldn't have chosen that TLD if it weren't for the "coincidence".

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It does stand for Tuvalu. It is a happy coincidence for Twitch and any other media company that wants to use that TLD that such a seemingly in theme TLD exists (so long as you only use the abbreviation and never spell out what the TLD actually stands for), but .tv 100% refers to Tuvalu. There isn't a Television-land that it's reserved for.

[–] juli -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The ccTLD was free when lemmy started. And developers like to test out things on free resources. The ccTLD just became paid last year.

Repeating the same thing for the 1000th time doesn't make it the truth.

Yes they're tankies, have awful censorship and are thin skin snowflakes. but making out the whole .ml ccTLD a marxists-leninist agenda just makes them see you as conspiracy nuts.

For what? a couple domains you've noticed to fit your narrative? Holy fucking batman. LMAO!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

.... when did I say everything on .ml domain is marxist-leninist? It's not any kind of conspiracy lol.

I said they picked this one because it was an obvious reference. Apparently some other people have spoken directly to them and said it was purely because it was free. Which I didn't realize, and also makes sense.

[–] AnyOldName3 42 points 1 day ago

They used that TLD because it had the same letters as Marxist-Leninist, not because they're from Mali. They're not from Mali.