Hello World,
following feedback we have received in the last few days, both from users and moderators, we are making some changes to clarify our ToS.
Before we get to the changes, we want to remind everyone that we are not a (US) free speech instance. We are not located in US, which means different laws apply. As written in our ToS, we're primarily subject to Dutch, Finnish and German laws. Additionally, it is our discretion to further limit discussion that we don't consider tolerable. There are plenty other websites out there hosted in US and promoting free speech on their platform. You should be aware that even free speech in US does not cover true threats of violence.
Having said that, we have seen a lot of comments removed referring to our ToS, which were not explicitly intended to be covered by our ToS. After discussion with some of our moderators we have determined there to be both an issue with the ambiguity of our ToS to some extent, but also lack of clarity on what we expect from our moderators.
We want to clarify that, when moderators believe certain parts of our ToS do not appropriately cover a specific situation, they are welcome to bring these issues up with our admin team for review, escalating the issue without taking action themselves when in doubt. We also allow for moderator discretion in a lot of cases, as we generally don't review each individual report or moderator action unless they're specifically brought to admin attention. This also means that content that may be permitted by ToS can at the same time be violating community rules and therefore result in moderator action. We have added a new section to our ToS to clarify what we expect from moderators.
We are generally aiming to avoid content organizing, glorifying or suggesting to harm people or animals, but we are limiting the scope of our ToS to build the minimum framework inside which we all can have discussions, leaving a broader area for moderators to decide what is and isn't allowed in the communities they oversee. We trust the moderators judgement and in cases where we see a gross disagreement between moderatos and admins' criteria we can have a conversation and reach an agreement, as in many cases the decision is case-specific and context matters.
We have previously asked moderators to remove content relating to jury nullification when this was suggested in context of murder or other violent crimes. Following a discussion in our team we want to clarify that we are no longer requesting moderators to remove content relating to jury nullification in the context of violent crimes when the crime in question already happened. We will still consider suggestions of jury nullification for crimes that have not (yet) happened as advocation for violence, which is violating our terms of service.
As always, if you stumble across content that appears to be violating our site or community rules, please use Lemmys report functionality. Especially when threads are very active, moderators will not be able to go through every single comment for review. Reporting content and providing accurate reasons for reports will help moderators deal with problematic content in a reasonable amount of time.
Too late, I'm already out the door. You assume no one understands the nuances of hosting in a country without free speech laws as liberal as the US.
The truth is most people do. Your moderators' histrionic response was so obviously from a place of emotion, and can recall numerous times your mods have allowed speech that was similar but didn't act because they weren't personally offended.
I think you fail to understand that your audience is international. That you let your moderators power trip not from an abundance of caution but because it's more convenient for you.
I think you fail to understand that being international means that your American-centric views take a backseat for once in your life.
Being happy that a man responsible for the deaths of thousands is an "American Centric View" now.
And don't call yourself "world" if you cannot reasonably accommodate a wide rage of views. Call yourself "Dutch" and make your limitations clear.
You world sycophants want the benefits of being the authoritative instance without the responsibility.
It's an American story, effecting 100's of millions of Americans directly. So no, not this this time. See a therapist to work out all this reflexive anti Americaism
And it's not an American server. So live with it. You're not entitled to do whatever you want in whatever space you want just because you're American and have feelings about something.
Then like I said, don't call yourself world and continue to promote yourself as the authoritative instance. This instance is the the default for all the mobile apps.
Voyager just switched its default to lemm.ee in v2.20.0 last week.
https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/releases/tag/2.20.0
Good news!
Still waiting for a large generalist US-centric instance to emerge
https://lemmy.world/post/21754967
If the last criteria is defederation from hexbear.net, then there is strong hope for Discuss.Online. Though I don't know if they would want to host a political community that would involve such controversial topics. They probably would be welcoming to like an AskUSA one.
I'm on dbzer0 which is federated with hexbear and I honestly haven't noticed anything bad from there. I always heard horor stories about it before I signed up here but it has actually been remarkably tame. I mean, they're obviously leftist but I've seen far far worse tankie shit from just lemmy.ml.
!meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works , a few of the HB threads are wild
The USDefaultism is already strong back in reddit, but sadly it seems to be worse on Lemmy. Tired of seeing folks from US acting like they're the main characters, kinda puts me off using this platform
!asklemmy@lemmy.world added a rule to remove US politics questions. That was a welcome change
Nice of you to not give a shit about the potential for other people to get into legal trouble so you can get angry on the internet. Enjoy your new instance.
Name a single instance that has had legal trouble
How would I know? And why do you think other people should risk it on your behalf even if it hasn't happened yet? You have to follow the laws of the country your server is in or you put yourself at risk. That's just how the world works.
Neither you, nor I, nor anyone else who isn't actually paying for and maintaining the .world server should be telling them that they should risk themselves for us. That is really not our call.
It’s a thing that isn’t happening. There is no reason to focus on it.
Again, it is not your call or my call or anyone else's call about who should put themselves at legal risk, especially when Lemmy is just people fucking around on the internet. "It hasn't happened before" is not going to convince someone who is already not willing to take that risk to go ahead and take it. For one thing, there's always a first time when it comes to a law.
You’re never going to stop us from celebrating the death of a murderer. And by doing so, you side with the insurance companies. You sound like a pig in plain clothes.
Good thing I'm not trying to stop you from doing that. And even if I was, there are how many hundreds or even thousands of other places on the internet where you could do that? So why are you so concerned about one specific Fediverse server?
Because it’s one of the biggest. Why do you care that people talk about it? Talking isn’t a crime. Can we celebrate hitler’s death? If so, then you’re picking sides with corporations, and you’re just a shill
I care that people think that the people who run Lemmy.world should be put at legal risk so that they can celebrate vigilantism on one specific server out of many Fediverse servers, one of countless places on the Internet where you can express your opinion.
Because it's super entitlement. I realize that's as American as apple pie, but at least realize you're doing it.
I hope one day you experience what it’s like to have a loved one refused medical care by a greedy corporation run by people who could not give a shit if they live or die.
I have been refused medical care by a greedy corporation run by people who could not give a shit if I live or die.
What does that have to do with my point about entitlement and legality? Like I said, there are countless other websites, including other Fediverse servers, so why are you getting so focused on one specific server on one specific type of social media? Because you feel entitled.
Imagine being denied and still siding with them. My gosh, they have you by the gonads. Does all their wealth make it taste any less salty?
Don’t you have some comments you need to go censor? Shill.
Why are you lying about me siding with insurance companies? I'm moving to a country with socialized medicine and I'm glad because I'm in a shit ton of medical debt due to two chronic diseases, one of which I plan to seek euthanasia for in a few years, when that isn't even legal in the U.S.
Do you think possibly you don't know a damn thing about me?
So, you really get to have no opinion on it, since you will soon be gone.
And I know a lot more about you than you might think. You’re very open about your personal life.
Interesting that you, complaining about censorship, are now telling me what I can't have an opinion about.
I guess I know what you would be doing if you were a moderator. Anyone's opinion about anything in a country where they don't live- deleted.
Edit: I should delete this comment of yours, right? You don't get to have an opinion on European things, right? https://lemmy.world/comment/13864586
Just like all the mods on .world? lol
Go spend time with your family instead of making the world a worse place by siding with corporations.
That would be difficult since they're in Indiana and I'm in Georgia right now. Weird, I though you knew all about me. Why didn't you know that? I guess that was a lie.
Also, please quote me siding with a corporation. You can't, because you're lying about that too.
Nobody wants to be the first.
As a side-note, based on the amount of hate speech some instances still allow, it seems like there isn't really any threat to this kind of discourse online on a platform that small.
You mean .world? I don't think it's your call or my call or anyone else's call when it comes to whether or not other people should risk legal trouble for the benefit of internet bitching.
No, not LW. I was thinking about instances where hate speech and call to violence against entire countries have been posted.
!meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works for people interested.
Some of the mods have always been on top of removing posts promoting / glorifying violence against others. Other mods have not. This is a hodgepodge mix of unpaid volunteers, helping on a platform that has very very rudimentary administrative/ moderation tools with very poor systems of notifications and reporting.
If you think the are opportunities for things to run smoother, I would recommend helping out or evangelizing for more people to help out if you’re too busy.
Simply being mad at the admins doesn’t help - especially when they’re trying navigate nuance and a janky platform with good intent.
Which new instance have you chosen?
Just use them all
That's one way to do it!
It’s important to have a few thousand accounts lined up on various servers so that when mods ban you for calling for the death of murdering corporations, you can’t just be silenced by a bunch of cops pretending to be people.
Lmao
You're missing the LW, SJW and Lemmy.ca ones!
Or they may just don't care. I've seen countless of people who not just justify the murder, but also think it should be an inspiration for what should be happen. How people can't wait to see rich people get murdered. How this should be the new norm and how to fix the system. Which I find extra funny when the same country just elected a person of the same making as the guy who got shot (and now people try to claim that everyone's on board with justifying the murder, including maggats).
Over half of America didn't vote as they see that both democrats and republicans take money from the rich and use it to make the middle class disappear. If it was easier to vote and we got rid of first past the pole, more people would vote. But alas both sides want first past the post as it keeps them in power. So only small minority that did vote did this, and most of America didn't want either side. But what you gonna do when both sides don't want you to live. Yes one side is extremely worse, but it is hard to see that when prices go up and your family might die due to higher ups not caring about the help.
No, I'm sorry, but this is straight up Russian disinformation and non voters are even dumber than those voting for Trump, since they automatically enable the bad actors, which is how you end up with despots like Putin btw who pushes for this exact kind of "both sides are the same" & "you can't trust either side / truth" type bullshit. Voting starts not at the presidential level, but at the local one. You can vote everyone in & out, and if there's truly no candidate to your liking (even though you should AT THE VERY LEAST vote for the lesser evil in any case) go into politics yourself. In a democracy, the voters are the ones who are responsible for making changes. But of course, if you elect people like Trump (not just Trump himself), then yes, you end up with a broken system that gets more and more dismantled - until it is gone and you truly don't need to bother voting anymore. And that's the point where you're at now, thanks to people's wrong vote, or lack of a vote. Both cases are responsible for this, dooming not just the US, but the rest of the world, thanks to Trumps (anti) climate policies.
Don't underestimate the amount of disinformation propaganda pushing even in such a small platform as here, potentially by people radicalized elsewhere but have now decided to bring it here. Not everyone is a bot (nobody here that I know of even, I'm just bringing up the infamous phrase), yet not everyone may be fully cognizant of the reasons behind their own beliefs either.