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How good is Lemmy dealing with censorship and why does the sign-up process on lemmy.ml involve having to copy a sentence from "The Principles of Communism"? (lemm.ee)

submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by Social_Discussion@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Hey everyone, I'm new to Lemmy and just starting to figure this site out. I mainly moved here because of the censorship on Reddit where they didn't publish posts that included the slightest word not allowed by their filter and they removed/blocked lots of content. I wonder if it will be somewhat better here (on the official site it says "Censorship resistant - By hosting your own server, you can be in full control of your content.").

The weird thing I saw with Lemmy was when I wanted to sign-up on the "lemmy.ml" server instance that according to the official Lemmy Servers listing page is a "A community of privacy and FOSS enthusiasts, run by Lemmy’s developers".

So I thought I try that one when it's from Lemmy's own developers. When I wanted to sign-up it required an application that you needed to fill out with one of the requirements being having to copy a sentence from the link provided which links to some article called "The Principles of Communism" which I thought was very odd for a site to do. I've never seen a site like this promoting some ideology that directly where it's part of the sign-up process to almost pledge to some political or religious ideology.

This seemed very sketchy to me. Does anyone know something about this?

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[–] grte@lemmy.ca 72 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

.ml is actually Mali's TLD. That it happens to also be an initialism for Marxism-Leninism is a coincidence.

[–] SolOrion@sh.itjust.works 86 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

That they picked it specifically is not a coincidence, though.

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

Right, but .ml doesn't stand for Marxist-Leninist is the thrust of what I'm saying.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 28 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Except it does stand for that in this context. It's like saying "the TV in twitch.tv doesn't stand for television, it's Tuvalu", like, yes the ccTLD tv is Tuvalu's, but twitch wouldn't have chosen that TLD if it weren't for the "coincidence".

[–] whydudothatdrcrane@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 weeks ago

I used to think it stood for machine learning.

[–] Cenotaph@mander.xyz 12 points 4 weeks ago

In general, no. In this context? It does

[–] coolusername@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Mali also happens to be under attack by US funded terrorists. The same pattern repeats itself over and over and over

[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 40 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

They used that TLD because it had the same letters as Marxist-Leninist, not because they're from Mali. They're not from Mali.

[–] whydudothatdrcrane@lemmy.ml -2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

So you are a mind reader now?

[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Sometimes people write their reasons for doing things down and other people read them and they don't need to read anyone's mind to know why they said they did something.