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  • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.nettoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.worldFreedom and safety
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    30 days ago

    Social contract theory is statist propaganda. Even before I knew anything about politics or political theory I was so confused by this idea.

    It’s just there to create an illusion of consent for state oppression. Even though there’s no realistic way to opt out, and we never even decided to opt in in the first place.

    What kind of crazy contract is that?



  • I can see why you would say this but the real issue in my opinion is not the annoying users, but the extremely intolerant mods and admins who will remove any factual information that is inconvenient to their narratives and ban you for trivial infractions. Even mild criticism or discussion of historical facts around the CPC or Hamas will result in an immediate ban, sometimes from the entire instance. It’s not possible to have healthy discussions on these instances.

    I don’t mind discussing those ideas elsewhere but it simply can’t happen on Lemmy.ml due to the restrictive moderation.


  • Probably fine as long as you don’t talk about politics or anything related to China or other “socialist” countries. But yeah I get the feeling.

    Someday I hope someone else will be running this project, or we all end up shifting to another federated software like PieFed or Mbin. You could consider contributing to those projects instead if you are wary of the lemmy devs–they’re all interoperable. But the idea behind the fediverse and open source software is that even the devs will have limited power, so I think we’re still better off than on Reddit, despite these issues.









  • You can post separate comments and ask people to upvote the one they agree with, though there’s no way to restrict how people vote up and down and the exact vote tallies will vary depending on your instance due to the way federation works.

    If you want to have a very rigorous and well-controlled poll an external site may be the best solution, but for informal things the above may suffice.