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I don't think Lemmy wants to be open to different opinions either: https://github.com/innereq/lenny#the-lemmy-problem
Seems they have reversed course on that, to be fair. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1773
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I was expecting your link to make some kind of point to substantiate your "anti-diversity" claim. This just shows they don't allow slurs on the platform.
Not "on the platform." In the software. Lemmy is not a website.
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> By and large what “isn’t allowed” on major tech platforms is racist, xenophobic, and homophobic content. That's such a naive and ignorant viewpoint. Everything which one doesn't agree with suddenly doesn't become racist, xenophobic, and homophobic content. Post from an hour ago: > Somali feminist: Facebook is being used to silence me https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28452991 Another one from 2 months ago: > The…
These are all from big corporate entities either making (admittedly terrible) mistakes, or using the precedent of those mistakes to hide. These are problems systemically fixed by having human moderators not dependent on ad revenue. > One only get to understand what censorship feels like when it comes for them. This looks like you were starting to write "First they came for the" and then realized the next word was "so…
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> one entity that owns the core technology Correct. Ownership is governed through intellectual property laws, the type of license used, agreements and so on. Lemmy's code is released under a GNU Affero license, and so ownership and usage are governed under this license. Large open source projects tend to set up legal entities (foundations, non-profits) which manage their brand, trademark, intellectual property rights…
That's quite informative. Thank you. What is still confusing though, as an end user if I can participate anywhere from any server, I'm not sure what things to consider before picking a server. It doesn't seem to really matter, does it?
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> use a fork [5] if you can’t stand the slur filter I'd rather not support the ecosystem at all if they pull stunts like this.
If it was possible to write an effective slur filter, I would not find it completely objectionable. Not because that would be useful to stop people saying completely shit-headed things if they really wanted to (I strongly suspect you could get the entirety of Mein Kampf past that filter), but as a "people who use these words are not welcome" signal, which definitely has some value. As it is, it's bashing the problem…
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No, there isn't. Think about what you're saying. Why would anyone want to promote a particular surgery? The movement is for individual freedom and for the government to stay out of people's medical decisions. Will it increase the number of those surgeries for adults if the government stops discouraging them? Maybe, maybe not. The point is that there is no "public interest" in what genitalia someone needs to have acco…
> Think about what you're saying. Why would anyone want to promote a particular surgery? That’s obvious - the good faith interpretation is that they believe that people have bodies that don’t match their gender and that having surgery sooner will spare them from suffering than having it later. > The movement is for individual freedom and for the government to stay out of people's medical decisions. No it isn’t. The m…
> No it isn’t. The movement is about denying parents the right to make medical decisions for their children.
This is absolutely, 100% false. There is no substantial, mainstream group advocating for this. This is the subject of conservative misinformation[1].
> There is public interest in protecting children from people who would encourage them to have irreversible surgery that renders them sterile when there is no evidence that this is medically necessary.
THIS DOES NOT HAPPEN[2]. Children cannot get irreversible surgery in the US. They may be given puberty blockers, which are completely reversible, and only until they're adults and able to make a decision for themselves.
And none of this happens without the consent of a board-certified physician who is under oath (and the threat of lawsuit and/or losing malpractice insurance) not to do anything to harm the patient.
> Why are doctors deciding that minors with healthy genitalia need to have them surgically altered?
What the actual fuck are you talking about? Do you also believe that there are thousands of partial birth abortions in this country? Doctors do not decide this or perform this surgery in the US.
Also, wait until you hear about circumcision. You're going to be really outraged at the surgical alteration of minors with healthy genitalia then!
1. https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-rachel-levine-r...
2. https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/05/viral-imag....
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What would you say if you were truly anonymous?
That's a really great question; There are important conversations within the LGBT that would be really interesting, but asking questions that could be construed years later as homophobic, no matter now innocent can publicly destroy people. I'd love to have a discussion breaking down certain ideologies, including the merits as well as demerits of certain controversial groups. But this could actually cross into crimina…
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> Think about what you're saying. Why would anyone want to promote a particular surgery? That’s obvious - the good faith interpretation is that they believe that people have bodies that don’t match their gender and that having surgery sooner will spare them from suffering than having it later. > The movement is for individual freedom and for the government to stay out of people's medical decisions. No it isn’t. The m…
You're regurgitating lies invented by the religious right, whether you realize it or not. > No it isn’t. The movement is about denying parents the right to make medical decisions for their children. This is absolutely, 100% false. There is no substantial, mainstream group advocating for this. This is the subject of conservative misinformation[1]. > There is public interest in protecting children from people who would…
No true Scotsman is transgender, either.
> This is the subject of conservative misinformation[1].
It’s also the subject of high quality investigative reporting:
https://www.amazon.com/Irreversible-Damage-Transgender-Seduc...
> Children cannot get irreversible surgery in the US. They may be given puberty blockers, which are completely reversible
The effect of delaying puberty until adulthood is irreversible and we don’t have studies that rule out long term side effects.
> and only until they're adults and able to make a decision for themselves.
Ok - so the decision to medically alter the course of their development is made for them, at a time when you admit they are not able to decide for themselves.
> And none of this happens without the consent of a board-certified physician who is under oath (and the threat of lawsuit and/or losing malpractice insurance) not to do anything to harm the patient.
Which is increasingly happening in other countries.
And why does a doctor get to make this decision without the parents?
> Why are doctors deciding that minors with healthy genitalia need to have them surgically altered?
> Also, wait until you hear about circumcision. You're going to be really outraged at the surgical alteration of minors with healthy genitalia then!
I am in fact outraged at the practice of circumcision. Aren’t you?
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You're being rapidly downvoted but to play devil's advocate I wonder if you could explain why you think "American leftism" is "disturbing".
Modern American leftism, at least on social media, is really weird. You have a lot of these so-called leftists rebelling against the philosophies of Marx and other communist philosophers on very fundamental issues (e.g. gun ownership for the proletariat, or the freedom of speech) all because of the current political climate in America. At the same time, these people will support and protect Big Tech and other capital…