this post was submitted on 09 Jan 2022
6 points (71.4% liked)
lemmy.ml meta
1406 readers
1 users here now
Anything about the lemmy.ml instance and its moderation.
For discussion about the Lemmy software project, go to [email protected].
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I def don't want this instance to be full of the reactionary anti-vaxx spam you see on the "free speech" reddit alts (which we are not a free speech instance obvi). Regardless of how their views differ, their hyper-individualized plague-spreading ethos is not welcome here. I've found they either don't think covid exists, or it isn't dangerous, and even if it is, its better that grandma die on the freedom altar... more important than lives, is their Freedom ^TM^. This captures it:
At the same time we should allow discussion as long as its respectful, especially on things like efficacy of various measures taken, specific vaccines, etc. I think its entirely pointless because I greatly doubt we have any epidemiologists here, but I guess that's what some people like to spend their time on.
I banned @[email protected] btw yesterday I think.
It doesn't seem to matter. I've seen 3 posts today, all with an admin telling people not to report anti-vax posts because there's no rule.
"Lemmy, a community of liberal privacy and FOSS enthusiasts..."
I know, about the leftist correction, I was making a commentary on how liberal it is to allow an Anti-vaxx mandate discussion as if it's not a thinly cloaked excuse to legitimize sharing a substantial amount of vaccine misinformaiton.
I think when we start allowing bad-faith efforts to hide worse things we open the door for all of the same sad excuses that lead to the failings of voat, mewe, gab, and literally everything else that started to get away from that shit, and it just fills on in anyway.