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A List of Social Media Platforms that Still Permit Free-Speech (cheapskatesguide.org)

submitted 11 months ago by klu9@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Article mentions, briefly or more substantially:

Lemmy
Mastodon
Retroshare
Nostr
Bluesky
ZeroNet
Secure Scuttlebutt
Tor onion sites
etc

Not my article, just one I found.

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[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Please define "free speech". Thx.

[–] FreeBooteR69@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Free but accountable speech. Nobody should want a forum without moderation, it would be a toxic mess.

[–] TootGuitar@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago

You didn’t define “free speech.”

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Ok good answer but I was really asking OP (in terms of that list).

[–] klu9@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago

Ay, there's the rub.

Even the article's author chooses to exclude some types of content, like porn.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Anyone who thinks you can have both absolutely no restraint on speech and an environment that isn't a cesspit hasn't seen what humans do in an environment that has absolutely no restraint on speech. Constructive discourse requires that there be someone to moderate and throw out the trolls, the spammers, and that guy who, wherever he goes, preaches about the effect of weather conditions inside the hollow earth on the lizardmen who select US presidential candidates.

[+] FreedomAdvocate -6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

The only real moderation that needs to happen is self moderation. If you see someone saying stuff that you don’t like, block them. That persons opinions are now gone for all that matters to you. There’s no need for their opinions to be removed for everyone. Everyone has the capabilities to moderate their own experience.

If someone keeps being racist and it bothers you, block them. If someone keeps name calling and it bothers you, block them. Those of us who aren’t bothered by opinions we don’t agree with or by people saying things we don’t like can still engage with those people and perhaps even teach (or learn!) something.

There should be very few restrictions on speech, especially in an online forum/community, imo, restricted basically only for trying to incite or threatening actual physical harm.

Moderation/censorship of speech, especially when the power to decide what gets removed and who gets banned and for how long is just given to random people on the internet, usually because they’re friends with and share ideologies and opinion with mods/admin, inevitably leads to a “safe space” echo chamber where any dissenting views are not allowed, while the allowed views are allowed to be presented in whatever manner they want, including calls for violence, abuse, etc. See Reddit as the absolute biggest and most current example. Twitter before that.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Dude, apparently unlike you, I remember Usenet, which uses precisely the sort of system you're describing, in its heyday. That means I've also seen discussion groups implode because they couldn't get rid of a single bad actor. Killfiles alone aren't enough, even when combined with community naming-and-shaming. Someone always lacks self-restraint and engages. That encourages the bad actor(s). They post more, often using multiple sockpuppets to get around people's killfiles and flood out legitimate discussion. Newcomers to the group see masses of bad actor spam and fail to stick around. The lack of new blood kills the group.

Self-moderation simply doesn't work. Yes, bad moderation happens and I've seen plenty of examples. But no overarching moderation is also the kiss of death.

[–] FreedomAdvocate -1 points 11 months ago

I remember Usenet, in fact I still use it to this very day.

If people want to engage with the “bad actor” then that’s their right.

You know what also makes new people not stick around? Over zealous moderation, especially when it’s clearly biased towards maintaining an echo chamber. More and more people are waking up to the fact that censorship is getting out of control, especially on social media sites, and they don’t like it.

Given self moderation and overarching and overbearing moderation are both the kiss of death, the one where a few people control the whole thing and direct the echo chamber is the more destructive imo.

[–] K1nsey6@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

'Free speech' around here is still dependent on the mods, exactly like it was in Reddit.

[–] solrize@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

I guess 4chan is still down?

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Nostr is absolutely unfiltered and it shows. Not for the feint of heart.

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Spam about a once in a lifetime opportunity for generational wealth via an investment into PooPooCoin?

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, that's the most dominant, but also sometimes nazi shit and the worst kinds of porn. Oh and I just had a guy eating raw meat and another one hit someone in the head from behind with some sort of tool. No idea what it was about, because I didn't speak that language.

[–] brighteast@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Yeah I checked out of Nostr after CSAM started appearing in my feed. That really sucked because I liked the technology, but there’s a line to be drawn.

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Sounds about right for crypto scheme participants.

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

At the rate we're going in the US, anti science and antisocial, clubbing one's next meal or foes and eating the meat raw for lack of other tools is not far off current trajectory.

[–] klu9@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the info. I've heard of it but never tried it.

Does it at least have easy ways for users to filter what they don't want? E.g. block lists that users can subscribe to.

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No, AFAIK you can just follow or block users and then get a feed of the followed.

Also you get a feed of replies to your posts.

It also has an NSFW flag. In the Yana client it's called "Automatically open sensitive content". It will then show a button, instead of loading things the author flagged sensitive.'

I seem to receive messages in all languages as well. Some have interesting pics of burnt cars.

[–] klu9@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago

Thanks for the details.

[–] FreedomAdvocate -2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Checks mod logs of any popular instance…..

Free speech definitely not permitted.

[–] kokesh@lemmy.world -4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not Lemmy. I get moderated quite a lot :)

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

What kind of things do you say that get "moderated"? (And what, deleted? Censored?)