Thanks for your answer.

I understand, I assume it was during all that backlash against Lemmy and the devs, when even r/LemmyMigration mods created r/KbinMigration and closed that one due to the devs political affiliation and moderation policy.

Lemmygrad doesn't seem to be a very friendly instance unless you have those specific political loyalties, and it seems self-isolating as well to an extent, I just want to foster a culture of not letting anyone control what you see or what you can say, and also a culture of accountability and feedback. I just think thats what makes communities alive and good.

I understand (and it's something kind of ingrained in the Lemmy logic itself) this idea that you have to just join an instance taking into account things like politics. But I like the idea of having more neutral spaces, for example if you see why some users like your instance, they perceive it as an "apolitical", "chill" place with a good technical leadership.

As you say it's a personal conviction, maybe you thought your own instance should reflect your values and not federate with those that you don't like. But right now, don't you think that essentially mean limiting the access to the information? It's not "big deal", yes, they can create another account, but why? Why is it so needed?

I think you could perfectly run the instance and let everybody block what they don't want to see, and moderate on individual basis until circumstances require otherwise.

That seems reasonable if that's the case. In the future I'd like to be part of a community where if admins take such decisions bordering censorship, they have a public log explaining why they do it. Legal, hosting issues, spam, are all valid reasons to me. I guess at this size it's also reasonable to lack such protocols, but it's important to have them.

Look at the discussion in other instances, for example

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/99601

Yet most the answers this thread has been receiving essentially consist of "stfu & gtfo", if I end up leaving it's not going to be just because of the admin decisions but much more because of the poor userbase that does not care about holding admins accountable and retaining control. I don't even blame the admins at this point.

So tldr "stfu and gtfo"? I can get outta here and, been saying it from the beginning, I probably will, but I won't be silent about it.

Bro I am already planning on making my own for other reasons. What's the matter with someone asking questions or reasons for a ban? I know I can leave and probably will. This is a much needed conversation. Don't like when users let themselves to be treated as babies. That's why corporations do what they want with us.

Yes, I regularly block communities from my feed. It is my decision. I am not delegating this decision to the admins. What's the line? I already mentioned: overall security, spam, legal issues, totally fine to me.

All I'm doing is to ask questions and express discomfort about the server owner restricting my access and you guys get all defensive

So, a political thing? And why I'm not allowed to see denialist content? Am I a baby? You feel like a baby that needs parental control from admins?

Sorry for the hostility but that's what this boils down to. Admin decisions over users. And I don't care about whatever political/worldview controversy they use to base their abuse of power.

Yes I surely know it's not "a big deal" and I already said I will leave on my post.

But I won't be silent about it. This is about the culture of the platform itself.

This instance has been receiving a lot of newcomers like me, and to me this is not OK. It is not OK to let the admins decide the content you'll receive.

If instances keep defederating from each other, you're fostering a culture of censorship and isolation where admins decide over users.

Enjoy your echo chamber / tyranny as any other subreddit where mods did what they wanted with you.

Culture is more important than software.

Lol there are useful products on those ads sometimes, but they choose the most bullshit product to show in that example, and, oh god, the timing, fucking scoundrels!

No offense, and I've seen several people requesting porn, but to me that kind of lowers the level or seriousness of a community. I'm OK if a platforms allows NSFW content, but there's a difference between actively browsing for porn and getting spam to your account. Porn is a very distracting stuff with addiction potential.

To me the best thing about forums, reddit, lemmy, etc. is the aggregation of general human knowledge, and it's better if you don't have to swim over a load of attention-grabbing content for it.

Not overloaded with porn. Reddit is full of bots and porn accs. Not the greatest issue ofc

Let the tankies run their place as they please, don't join their instance and that's it. So is it a requirement to not be in a political blacklist to post here? I don't like that at all. This is a beginning open source project, if the devs screw it they will face backlash and a fork. That's all. Don't overpolitize. We're here because we want freedom from corporate control and enshittification. Let others isolate themselves if that's what they want.