Hey everyone, I’m new to Lemmy and just starting to figure this site out. I mainly moved here because of the censorship on Reddit where they didn’t publish posts that included the slightest word not allowed by their filter and they removed/blocked lots of content. I wonder if it will be somewhat better here (on the official site it says “Censorship resistant - By hosting your own server, you can be in full control of your content.”).

The weird thing I saw with Lemmy was when I wanted to sign-up on the “lemmy.ml” server instance that according to the official Lemmy Servers listing page is a “A community of privacy and FOSS enthusiasts, run by Lemmy’s developers”.

So I thought I try that one when it’s from Lemmy’s own developers. When I wanted to sign-up it required an application that you needed to fill out with one of the requirements being having to copy a sentence from the link provided which links to some article called “The Principles of Communism” which I thought was very odd for a site to do. I’ve never seen a site like this promoting some ideology that directly where it’s part of the sign-up process to almost pledge to some political or religious ideology.

This seemed very sketchy to me. Does anyone know something about this?

  • murmelade@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    5 hours ago

    But what communities are available to you depends on which instance you picked. Right?

    • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      1·
      4 hours ago

      Wrong. You can subscribe to any community from any instance that is federated with yours, and it will show up in your feed. Once one person has subscribed to an outside community, it will start to appear under All in your home instance as well. If you pick a home instance that is federated with most of the others, then you essentially can see everything you would feasibly want to see.

      I am subscribed to communities all over the Fediverse.

    • can@sh.itjust.works
      21·
      4 hours ago

      Technically yes, but in practice for any of the big instances, not really.

      I still see all the communities I want from SJW: local, dot world, dot ml, lemm.ee, etc

      Exception is Beehaw because they defederated us but they also deferedated Lemmy.world too so they’ve already cut themselves from most users. I have an acct there anyway but don’t feel the need to check it much anymore.

      Edit: another notable example is Lemmy.world won’t allow federating with any communities focusing on piracy.

      Edit2: why downvote this? Am I incorrect?