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Re:Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets ... by badRNG on Saturday June 27, 2020 @04:48PM (#23664568)
When free speech on the internet is discussed, it is within the context of freedom from excessive moderation on a platform. To call a Fediverse a "platform" doesn't seem quite analogous, these communities are more like their own platforms that are far more intensely moderated than even Twitter or Reddit.

Free speech advocates who aren't convinced by the "just go to another platform" argument in a discussion about Reddit or Twitter censorship likely won't think the argument is worth accepting simply by redefining what a platform is.

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Re:Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets ... by detaro on Saturday June 27, 2020 @04:55PM (#23664622)
And what stops a network of lemmy instances from being that more intensely moderated Reddit alternatives? That's my point: just because other reddit alternatives have branded themselves as "free speech" doesn't mean all of them have to. And federated platforms might make that easier than one-offs.
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