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I’m guessing lawyers drew it up as a standard tos and they threw it over the fence tbh

But they can stack the deck heavily in their favor, and you don’t have the same legal protections anymore. Who arbitrates Where? When?

It’s honestly not bad, definitely the most mature fediverse service

Agreed, this is my go to response to everyone, (seriously there’s like a post a week about this same thing) asking it. Sounds like the perfect place to spread whatever garbage you want is the server you set up and pay for yourself, accepting all personal liability for. Go all cowboy with it!

Could try it out, for a migration this size I’d recommend testing it a bit. Try replying to this post via pixelfed

Pixelfed won’t launch groups anytime soon unfortunately, I’ve followed closely and it seems it’ll be out about the same time as Tesla’s full self driving.

I think the best way would be choose yourself piefed or Lemmy, and then you offer mastodon or pixelfed as places for your users to join and subscribe. So it’s a little more natural to them.

While your goal is noble, reality is that I would expect a very small percentage of people to migrate. Less than one maybe even. I think that even a few hundred more people joining the fediverse here is a great idea, but I don’t want you to be discouraged when it doesn’t turn out the way you hope. People love their platforms. (I also just read your last paragraph after writing this, my bad, glad you’re in the right headspace :)

I had no idea they went public

Why compare us to reddit? We feel like Reddit but from a hosting and admin perspective it’s a whole different ballgame. Mods of reddit at worst run the risk of their communities being taken down for a bit if they let content slip through. Here on Lemmy us admins are legally liable for content that is posted. We don’t have a large limited liability corporation that will take the hit for us. We need these tools, or we are the ones that will have boots through doors.

A built in auto mod is the largest thing. A way to say that this common pattern is spam and to block it system wide, right now we just don’t have that. A nice to have stretch goal would be to use some model to fight actual gore or csam material, which just doesn’t exist. A moderation dashboard would be great to see users with their comment history, vote trends, high level to see if a person just had an off comment that might be taken the wrong way, or if there is a trend of trolling behavior

These have been opened on the GitHub and either sit open forever or are just closed.

Oh that is much easier than I anticipated.

Sounds like the perfect opportunity to make your own instance and have it be your haven.

Would you mind writing up a guide on how you did it with Lemmy?

Which is not federated, otherwise I would recommend it immediately

Is that the guy with a friend?

So, schlepping it off on other instance owners, so they host it, which as you say is not easy or cheap.

It’s just markdown, to wild. I have a few kinks in mine

Why not just use an actual federated blogging service like write freely?

Long term friends we see here

Ah yet another person who thinks they’re owed free services to post whatever the hell they want whenever they want.

Us instance admins are people, average joes, hosting small servers for fun. Most of us have no interest in hosting whatever hate speech you want to spew under the guise of “free speech”. As someone else already called out, you’re more than welcome to start your own server. You just have to register it under your name, but hey you believe in free speech, so that’s not a problem I assume. You mentioned that you’re not interested in being technical, well have no fear! There are providers that do it in just a couple clicks! Super easy!

Just register your name to your instance, and say whatever the hell you like. Of course I will then probably exercise my own rights to defederate from your server.

You have the right to say whatever you like. You are not owed free server space or free hosting of said speech. We are not compelled to host your hate speech. Free speech is not an “illusion” on Lemmy (or the fediverse as a whole) - you just have to be willing to take on the risk and drawbacks yourself, there’s no big safe company who’s just going to quietly block you. Your words, Your server, Your responsibility.

Not bad, it’s growing on me. I like how obvious the express trains are