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But is that not how communities should operate here? As long as they follow the instance's rules, they get to make a community with their own rules..
If you want to make a community about spongebob memes where people are only allowed to post spongebob memes, you can do that and remove any post that post things which are not spongebob memes..
If conservatives want to create an "echo chamber" where only conservatives are allowed to post/comment, they are just showing that their stated values about "freedom of speech" and "opposition to censorship" are not genuine...
If they want to allow "civil discourse" only to then backpaddle, they will also not look very good..
And this instance's rules are clear, this isn't like reddit back in the day that allowed any post. If people spread transphobia or hate, they get banned, and if we look at other "conservative only" communities on other sites, they probably won't be able to stick to those rules anyway..
No one here wants to create an echo chamber, that is the point
Well if you don't then my worries will be proven wrong and I would be positively surprised. But as an open leftist who has tried to share personal views on things in conservative and right-leaning communities before (always trying to be as respectful as possible), my experiences have made me a bit more pessimistic. People will claim to allow freedom of speech, but eventually pull out the ban hammer at the first excuse they have..
Even here, the conservativesonly sub, which states in it's sidebar that "Non Conservatives may comment unless it is apparent that they only came here to harass others who do not share their viewpoints" is just arbitrarily deleting some of my comments without explanation.. When I asked the mod, the reply was basically "this is a conservatives only community, we will maybe perhaps potentially allow some non-conservative comments if we feel like it..".
Stuff like that does not make me remain sceptical..
I have passed ownership of this community so I can't speak with absolute certainty, but the moderators that I have added (including the new owner) all share this view of mine, that free discussion, even differing and disagreeing opinions can and will always be permitted.
You're more than welcome to post and comment here. In the first day or two some disagreeing comments were removed and I re-approved them and told the mod that removed them that it wouldn't how this community is moderated.
The only posts I've removed are from a user that came here as part of the brigade and spammed dozens of posts that were not even tangentially related to conservatism (more so conservative hate/mocking). I was going to leave a few up, but upon issuing a temp ban to the user for the spam, the option to remove all was presented which I used. A single post that disagrees with conservatism would never be removed as long as it's done to incite discussion and not to incite hate.
That's good to know.
That's perfectly fine in my view.