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I was glancing through the mod log and saw these two entries. Conspiracy theory communities were both removed for violating rule #3.

What are these rules? If I look in the side bar, rule #3 on both lemmy.ml and sh.itjust.works to me looks like no porn. So why were conspiracy theory communities not allowed? That seems like kind of a community that shouldn't be an issue on Lemmy... are conspiracy theory subs really something that won't be allowed here? Honestly that's kind of disturbing to see already...

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[โ€“] CocktailPlasma 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Okay, there you go?

Well, yeah, but is that really how instances are going to handle moderation? A single post they don't like in a community on another instance and they just block that entire community from their instance? Seems pretty heavy handed.

Not sure how on mobile, but on the computer you would have to visit a different instance in order to view one of those communities, and of course if you want to actually participate in it, you would have to create a second Lemmy login on that new instance.

[โ€“] Lauchs 1 points 2 years ago

but is that really how instances are going to handle moderation?

You mean, is "is that how someone who is paying to do this out of their own pocket and spending their own time" going to handle moderation? And to answer the correctly phrased question, yes. I would want nothing to do with some subs. Were it drawings of child porn (so technically legal I think) how many images would be too many?

Took a visit regardless, that sub seems wretched. Most have been deleted by their own mods, what's left is "is the WHO the terrorist arm of the UN" which frankly, is dumb and dangerous enough that yeah, I'd count it.

But at the end of the day, the same flexibility afforded to the volunteer running the instance is afforded to you! You can go, join an instance that supports your values. But you don't get to demand that we all have our instance tainted by it. Should that balance switch and the moderation gets too heavy, we too can leave.