cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/6788379

Hi,

As we might all know ( Early adopter of Lemmy ). Lemmy has been (also) made to give an alternative to the censor kingdom of Reddit ! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmy_(software)

And further more Lemmy is fLOSS 😍

Great ! but watch out ! we don’t want that Lemmy take the same path as Reddit did ! ( hopefully this is limited as it run as a ~Federated model )

Anyways, I believe to avoid censorship and jeopardize users privacy the following should be considered by Instance admins and moderators.

• Avoid as possible a mandatory email to register Doing so is not reducing spam or whatever you’re afraid ! It’s limiting users to create account that preserve their anonymity ! If you don’t know why anonymity is important I’ll suggest you to dig this website to start with https://www.laquadrature.net/en/support/#chiffrement BTW if I couldn’t be anonymous, I wouldn’t write any post on Lemmy, as I’m not living in a free country !! Look on other instances some admin have found clever way to circumvent bots without the need of an email.

• Also Lemmy don’t require too much of moderation ! as any user can use the block feature in their options so you should not censor content in behave of others !

If the freedom of expression is limited to the ideas that we like, it is not freedom of expression. Noam Chomsky.

Cheers,