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Comment by commoner | Hacker News Reader

FediTips, a Mastodon account, recently shared some concerns about the Uyghur-related content in the largest Lemmy instance, which is run by Lemmy's developers:

https://mstdn.social/@feditips/106835057054633379

This created a firestorm on Lemmy, on which it was noted that Lemmy removes conservative and libertarian communities with the reason "No conservative communities":

> Removed Community conservatives reason: No conservative communities

> Removed Community Libertarian, in the pursuit of a free society reason: No conservative communities allowed

https://lemmy.ml/post/78808

https://lemmy.ml/modlog

Perhaps the underlying software is fine, but the largest Lemmy instance is not exactly the friendliest to anyone who wants to express themselves more freely than they are allowed to on mainstream social networks.

But you can even host your own instance with all the "conservative" communities you want. Why not do that?

I mean, you must be aware by now that those "conservatives" did ruin a couple of actually good communities in the last years (especially in the reddit clone scene) and some people just don't want to deal with those people at all. And they shouldn't have to.

Why is it that people keep saying ignorant racist trash and then cry about cancel culture and how it’s all the media’s fault. The fact you think people along you out for being disrespectful is everyone but your own fault. And quit blaming the media, if they are such a problem stop watching. Or continue to spend your days watching the elitist con men on your favorite channel and praise an opinion host like a god. You’ve likely broken every law from your magic book and still think your better than every person that can think for themselves instead of being sheep following their masters every word.

The problem arises when people dont actually say "ignorant racist trash" but have a genuine point of discussion(albeit controversial), but are painted with the same brush as real racists and bigots. Resorting to subversive vulgarity is not a good idea.

When was that the problem?

I haven't seen it being a problem anywhere and especially not in the prominent cases of the last years.

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