I was glancing through the mod log and saw these two entries. Conspiracy theory communities were both removed for violating rule #3.

What are these rules? If I look in the side bar, rule #3 on both lemmy.ml and sh.itjust.works to me looks like no porn. So why were conspiracy theory communities not allowed? That seems like kind of a community that shouldn’t be an issue on Lemmy… are conspiracy theory subs really something that won’t be allowed here? Honestly that’s kind of disturbing to see already…

  • Rob@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    The “start your own instance” is twofold. You can indeed move away if you don’t like the rules one instance imposes. But at the same time, being an admin, you get the freedom not to associate with stuff you find problematic. You can’t expect an instance owner to pay for server space to host others’ whims.

    From a more personal point of view, I’m really happy that I don’t have to engage with QAnon BS while browsing. It works well for the users too.

    • CocktailPlasma@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      03·
      2 years ago

      You do realize that conspiracy is far more than qanon stuff, right? It was an interesting sub to read from time to time on Reddit.

      And yeah, I get “just run your own instance”, but not everyone wants to deal with their own instance just to be able to freely browse communities without random censorship. I was hoping Lemmy wouldn’t be that way. Don’t know what it is about some people being so unable to tolerate opposing views from their own…

      • mihnt@kbin.social
        2·
        2 years ago

        You can view those communities hosted on other instances from lemmy quite easily. Nothing stopping you. They just don’t want it on their instance.

      • Lauchs@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        Note the “similarly disproven” section.

        If there are fun, interesting, not comically disproven conspiracy theories/communities, I imagine they’d be welcome.

        Don’t know what it is about some people being so unable to tolerate opposing views from their own…

        No one should have to host your stupid nonsense. Just because I have a party, doesn’t mean I have to invite you.

        We want good conspiracies, not the dangerously stupid stuff. Hence, no Q nonsense.

      • Netsettler2k@kbin.social
        1·
        2 years ago

        Is it possible that the posts made on that specific community were specific to Qanon? As in, a conspiracy theory community wouldn’t be blocked just for being a conspiracy theory community. But if the community was flooded with Qanon specific posts, they might remove it because that’s specifically against rule #3.

        I’m in no way arguing for or against this, but wondering if that’s closer to the logic they followed. I would love a good old fashioned conspiracy community, but they do have a tendency to pull in a lot of crazies. Do we know what the posts are like?