Asklemmy

Start your own server.

My dude.

Just don't.

Everyone else already knows that if there's only one mod, they own the forum, whether they originated it or not.

You can choose to pretend this fact has not existed since the nineties if you like, but you won't fool anyone but yourself.

If there's multiple mods, there's one that is still top mod, and counts as owning it, regardless of whether or not they use that ability.

If the forum is multi layered, like reddit, lemmy, and similar places, there will be someone that owns the site/service/instance, literally because they own the hardware it is run on. This has also always been the case as long as such layered forums have existed.

What you call "true free speech" is not true free speech, it is speech without consequences, and that does not exist anywhere in the world to any large extent.

The consequences may be minor, but even someone looking at you funny is a consequence of one's speech

this is a fact that has existed as long as language.

If you go into someone else's forum and do not follow the rules, assuming rules are available, it is your responsibility to either follow them, or assume that consequences will occur.

If the rules are not available, it's a shitty forum you should avoid anyway.

I'm an admin of an instance and the reports I see from our users on "unmoderated" communities haunt me to this day...

I can 100% guarantee you that any community that has zero to no moderation WILL turn into a Nazi and CSAM cestpool.

There is no if, only a when...and that when is answered with "very quickly"

The point is those things would be there pretty much immediately.

Just today I got a report of someone spamming a picture of a woman eating a shit. That user was banned.

Now imagine no one banning those people - everyone would be getting the picture.

You don't need your own server/instance to start a community. Find an server/instance and start your community. As long as you don't break instance rules the admins shouldn't mess with you.

lmao

Do it! Run a server! Stake your reputation, and time, on that community with no rules.

Honestly I'm surprised there isn't one already.

Lemmy.512chan.site or something

Recently there was some rich guy who wanted free speech so badly he bought the entire social network, and then he proceeded to unban Nazis and child porn posters, but would ban users who would criticize him, or talk about his business habits.

Forget free speech. That’s a code word for Nazis wanting to be unhinged.

So... Yes, then? You do want a Neo-Nazi community? Weird.

What does "truly free speech" mean to you? This doesn't seem to be about not being able to post a picture in a lawncare sub.

I see what you're saying, but ultimately it's a reputation thing. There will be a moderation team who hits your sweet spot of hands off versus removing annoying content.

From a programmatic perspective designing infrastructure where people can't remove things leads to the anarchy of usenet.

But I'm hopeful that you will find a group that follows your moderation objectives and you can verify it like looking at the mod log. So it's going to be all reputation anyway

I get what you're staying, but frankly your OP question sounds pretty silly considering what the issue is.

The idea is, everyone can run their communities as they like... Even with such stupid rules as no pictures in a lawn comm, or US politics only in a politics comm on a world instance. Kinda sad in such cases, but otherwise the mods and admins are there for mostly good reasons.

You can almost always find comms or instances more to your liking, or try and start your own.