Exactly. In this case it was db0 users, who had the door shut in front of them and wanted to fight back.

It‘s totally fine for Lemmy instances to restrict speech in whatever way they like. That’s kind of the point of the fediverse.

The more restrictions an instance has, the less free speech it allows.

The right to free speech is about the government restricting speech. Human groups like Lemmy instances and communities always restrict speech in one way or another, as in manners, what topics and opinions are deemed appropriate, etc. That‘s by necessity.

There’s also a constant push and pull going on about what’s considered acceptable and not acceptable speech in every group. The political overtone window is an example of that.

Let’s be specific to db0 in this context. Defederating feddit.org isn’t about regulating speech on db0, it’s a political power move. It‘s trying to influence speech regulation on feddit.org itself and indiscriminately bans feddit.org users from db0, regardless of what they have ever said. This is an attempt to discredit speech, that’s considered main stream in Germany. It also affects users from Germany the most, again indiscriminately.

Feddit.org didn’t demand any restriction on speech on other servers on the other hand. They simply have rules db0 doesn’t like.

So this move by db0 is directly aimed against free speech of others, and their ability to regulate speech as they deem appropriate. So characterizing db0 as pro free speech is not a good fit.

To db0‘s credit, their community [email protected] where people can complain about moderation policies around the fediverse is pro free speech. It highlights arbitrary application of rules, abuse of mod power, makes unwritten rules visible. It’s great that it exists. Certainly one of the best communities on the fediverse.

I needed to hear that. Thank you

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Start a community named !fediversedrama on actual free speech instance like sh.itjust.works or one of the piefed instances, shitpost until you attract drama.

Might be a good question for [email protected]. However lemmy.world is pretty restrictive, so your post might be locked or deleted.

https://lemmy.zip/post/59366322

Lots of other links in the comments as well.

There were also posts on feddit.org about this, but I can’t find it at the moment because Lemmy‘s search sucks.

They downvoted him because he spoke the truth.

dbzer0 doesn’t stand for Freedom of speech in the slightest. Look up the drama on why they defederated from feddit.org

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Because it feeds into people‘s antisemitic ZOG conspiracy theories.

There is zero proof for this conspiracy theory.

The main disadvantage octopi have is their antisocial behavior. The parents don’t raise and teach their young. They live in solitude. The only time they spent time together is for mating, after which they die.

Octopuses that can talk to each other, hunt in groups, and raise their young collectively would be pretty formidable. Even if they managed to get there, they would still be living underwater making the use of fire pretty difficult.

Children of Ruin is a great book that describes a civilization of octopus, if you want to explore this a bit.

Poetry, fashion, art, exotic pets.

Iran has fired missiles at Israel and encouraged their proxy Hezbollah and others to do the same since the Gaza war was started by Hamas. Iran has been the major reason for this war to escalate across the region.

Also don’t forget their involvement in Syria, Iraq, and Yemen.

„Death to America. Death to Israel.“ aren’t just empty phrases, they have been active Iranian policies for decades.

Also remember than Iran slaughtered protestors by the tens of thousands just a few months ago. They have the highest kill count of civilians in this war by far, if you count these.

Iran also hasn’t offered any concessions towards achieving a ceasefire so far. They want more power than before. They think they can outlast Trump‘s willpower to continue the war. A stronger Iran would be a bad outcome of this already terrible war.

Don’t forget the gulf states either. Kuwait launched air strikes against Iran after the ceasefire was announced.

The whole situation is pretty fucked.

I don’t say Israel or the USA are acting well in this context. I’m just pointing out Iran and their puppets Hezbollah are pretty terrible.

Iran also has fired missiles at Israel after announcing the ceasefire. That was before Israel ramped up the attack on Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Trump also said Lebanon would not be included.

Let also remember that Hezbollah didn’t adhere to the previous ceasefire agreement, which included them withdrawing from the south and disarming. 80% of Lebanese want Hezbollah to disarm and stop attacking Israel all the time.

Israel genocided Syrians? How devalued has that word have become?

Iran has attacked plenty of civilian infrastructure across the gulf states and Israel. It also has attacked cities with cluster munitions. Desalination plants, oil infrastructure, cities, etc.

My fully automated base will keep exploiting the natural resources.

Dungeon Keeper 2 was just great.

Yes, the first link is a 404 because they deleted the images, as I pointed out at the same time.

Sumud Flotilla used to have photos of their cargo on their website. It was so embarrassingly little, they took them down.

Of course you don’t have to believe the claims they were empty.