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You should read this on why seemingly arbitrary, but nuanced moderation is needed to have a friendly space online.
There exist instances that have more of a free-speech "focus", but despite that most instances cannot tolerate intolerance, harassment, trolling, illegal or borderline illegal stuff. There is generally more tolerance for disagreement on Lemmy than other forums, where unpopular takes are heavily downvoted instead of removed.
A common sequence of events that happens with trolls or flamebaiters:
So yeah, it's to keep out the jerks. Behave well, think of others as you speak, then you will find yourself able to say more than in places with professed free-speech absolutism. If you don't like that, start your own instance so that no one can moderate you in your own space, and watch the jerks, trolls and spammers roll in after a while.
that's an unpopular opinion.
should we report you for trolling?
I'm not an admin, so I can't stop you from doing that. I'm not sure why you're asking for my permission.
I'm pointing out your hypocrisy.
you're saying it's ok that some unpopular opinions are silenced because the greater good demands it, but who dictates the greater good? is it you? is it me? no, it's the mods.
at which point do the communities that you or I build stop becoming our communities and become the mods curated community?
IMO we don't need mods because social moderation is a real mechanic that should be employed on a platform.
Thanks for not helping at all.
Narrator: yet one still made its way in.
Edit: all of my comments in this thread went from +3 to -1 while all of op's heavily downvoted everything is now less so, all in the last few minutes. Army of alts to the rescue!