State surveillance begins when protecting privacy is treated as a suspect act.
Preventing crimes apparently necessitates to forbid any resistance to surveillance.
So much for France/Europe being a defender of (digital )rights.

(Gasp, a veiled islamic woman, in the same old times that the far-right loves, such an oppression, so inequal, nothing to do with piety or modesty, her choice should be forbidden by law in the name of freedom)
(source : am french, and w/e)

Seems like you either slept ~4 hours or didn’t at all ^^"
Here’s the modlog just in case, it can be hard to find(, or even absent,) if you’re searching for it on a mobile app : https://lemmy.ml/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=23021351
Bye !

(Addition : As an aside, perhaps that like me you’d have preferred to know who downvotes//upvotes your comments, just know that it was the devs’ intention, partly because of astroturfing, but the community refused)

(pfff, he’s been banned from futurology.today for ban evasion, what a stupid reason, and i didn’t know that in that case we can’t see his comments, here’s what i had before the ban)

Some last additions :
https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqs9q2w57rp7lmkwtstd6ahe4jzp0r7exwtsegqfjm603yk3myam93gzvfgh0

3 likes and one retweet, unusual for his account, and indeed a very different reception from here : https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsyar8c3tjww0rpzawez7ged7gsnrvtamlrc4jqpwkwc8tr7jestpgtd2pqt

And also, perhaps :

Seems like there’s one more thing to add, a video published a few hours ago, reporting on the laws against hate speech, once more (ab)used to censor political dissent : https://youtu.be/1AiZQriMkDM
Some people will blame Youtube/Google, others our governments.

I don’t have an access to everything from your account, which wasn’t that big, including your inbox and possible private messages, but i made a copy of your comments and posts if you’re interested : https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1aA8MU4ToqNwKQb3RyW6W77FtNFOei6Rl
It’s in .json, and i don’t know of an existing lemmy viewer that accepts a .json(, excepting the app i’m making obv.), but if you’re like me you’d perhaps like to keep an archive of what you wrote, somewhere on your ‘hard drive’/cloud.
(Good to know if you didn’t that admins have a command to “purge” accounts, which shouldn’t be your case since it was a temporary ban, but when your account is purged no-one can ever recover its content anymore, which may suck depending on whether the user cares about h.er.is posts/comments)

The principle behind trolling is that we can never be sure, but it’s possible that Skavau ragebaited you into getting you banned, we know that he reported you many times(, on his own admission), and he’s kinda implying that he had a goal in mind here
Like, it’s probably not the case here, but it’s common knowledge that as soon as the 90s, e.g. on m.m.o. forums, users realized that they won’t get banned for gaslighting another user, and if the other user ends up throwing an insult, then s.he will get a temporary ban which could affect h.er.is ingame character(, moderators of that forum were usually paid). So you have players that are now recounting with nostalgia how they managed to get multiple players banned with a single “it’s a skill issue”, or something along these lines.
Anyway, next time perhaps don’t try to have the last word with him, your anger is sometimes a bit painful to read, and getting downvoted even for good comments(, because some people followed you from another comment or post,) is never a pleasant experience, everyone seeks some amount of social validation as you already know 🤷, not that you seem weak enough to be affected

I’ve quickly looked for instances that explicitly claim that they’ll never ban their users, even temporarily, but haven’t found it, there were more than 700 of them at one point, and now “only” more than 500.
Typing “censor” in the search bar here brought https://lemmybefree.net/, even if it’s not perfect.

I.m.o., instances should never be allowed to ban anyone sitewide, even temporarily(, except for spamming/bot accounts). Or why not some of them explicitly stating that they want to represent a group of users, and reserving themselves the right to ban a user hurting their reputation, but they should be in minority.
Communities should also never be allowed to permaban, and a one-year ban should be the maximum, but only after, e.g., at least 3 one-month bans, themselves preceded with a demand to simply edit the comment/post.

Another really awesome thing with Lemmy that i love, compared to reddit, is their modlog : moderators explain publicly the reason for banning someone, and have to display the censored comment.
Meanwhile, not only will reddit moderators usually won’t even give you an explanation, sometimes even if you send them a d.m., but reddit won’t even warn you that your comment or post has been shadowbanned/censored, i systematically have to double-check with other accounts, and one day i may have to use VPNs if they begin to shadowban you according to your IP adress.

Anyway, you posted hundreds of comments for something like 18h straight or more, and it doesn’t seem like it was a pleasant experience, i hope that you’ll have more success/fun next time :) !

Then the first part(, leaving the choice of blocking an instance to the user,) is a relatively common desire since i’ve already seen it expressed before. If enough people keep asking for it then it may happen.
I’m making a lemmy app and among other things you’ll be able to follow (a group of )users and not only (a group of )communities, sthg reddit will end up adopting probably. And you’ll also be able to display the “All” tab with multiple accounts. So, if you have an account on lemmy.world, as well as on the instances blocked by lemmy.world, then you’ll be able to have access to all instances at once.
You can see the instances blocked by going to sh.itjust.works/instances, or lemmy.ml/instances, and as you can see only very little instances, for spamming i think, were blocked. Which means that you’re probably already seeing ~99% of lemmy in your “All” tab ?

It doesn’t solve the presence of moderators in communities but that may be kinda out-of-topic from your original subject.

(i’m going to sleep r.n., so don’t be surprised if i don’t answer before tomorrow, not that there’s necessarily something to add, but you seemed to go further than being able to talk with all instances from any instance of origin)

To do that, would it be enough if instances can’t block each other, or if users could unblock the foreign instances blocked by their original instance ?
You’d also want some .onion instances, and that they could communicate with those using the DNS.
Am i missing something ? You seem to also have more to say

Nah, i’m stupid sorry, it was a quote from a post by David Rovics, i should have put the «…», my bad.
He’s the only anti-imperialist singer i know, along with Red Creators Network, worth checking out i think :)

I’m saying Lemmy’s censorship is the same as reddit’s because we still have roughly the same groups as on reddit.
I still post to about the same audience or smaller, not bigger than peak reddit.

If these two sentences are meant to be understood together, then it’s misleading to use the word censorship i think, it’s more a mix of a lack of visibility and echo chambers, in which case these are two things that don’t seem debatable/false.
If i understood you correctly, could you expand on your solution ?

From what i understood :

• When you’re critcizing the incomplete/broken system of federation, would it be enough if instances can’t block each other(, even if you’d probably don’t mind if users can block instances) ? I’ve seen that same thought in /c/fediverse a few times, along the lines of being able to access a real “All” tab ;
• Instances shouldn’t communicate through DNS because authorities could block it, hence why you’re suggesting to use Tor, it’d make Lemmy a.n free/unconstrained network ;
• You’re making a mistake i.m.o. when stating that Lemmy will become censored like Reddit, because you can’t have the same Lemmy admins for all instances. So, while Reddit banned republicans and communists, it can’t be done for Lemmy(, unless through national/federal laws). You probably already knew that, just in case(, bonus by the devs) ;
• It feels like the core of your speech ? In any case, i’m missing almost all of what’s surrounding it hence the comment above.

What do you imagine the outcome of that would be?

Depends, i haven’t understood what he talked about, and neither have you. What if it’s a moderation made by the user h.er.im.self, while taking into account the vote of users with the same “tags”/preferences as him ? That’s not his idea but other methods are possible, in any case it’s aiming for an ideal of freedom, it’s left to us to see the best path in attaining it, and internet is still in its infancy.

Almost everyone in this thread opposed him bar a few people.

And they didn’t understood what he said, and you’re always answering aside

I’ve read less than half of the comments here, but my main feeling is that the downvotes only happened because they didn’t understood what you said, in their mind you want something even less censored than 4Chan, which will lead to something even worse than 4Chan, they believe that moderation helps in healthy discussions.
I’ve got reserves on that, for example mods should only ask for the user to edit h.er.is comment instead of instabanning them for life, and as i said elsewhere our states don’t only ask platforms but are making laws to “moderate” the internet.

But that’s not what you were talking about, these downvotes should tell you that your thought hasn’t matured enough to be presented as a clear project, like here :

I will not be spinning up instances of anything. I will seed hashes in bittorrent-like P2P networks, I will put my posts where they fit, I will look for posts from others in the most anti-censorship ways I can find, and I will hope devs and server admins create a version of Lemmy that’s fitting for more of my posts - while hurrying toward a possible future where Tor isn’t enough to make Lemmy relevant anymore, because P2P networks become the only place worth posting anything.

At first i was furious because i thought that many people opposed freedom of expression, but after reading more comments i’m relieved that it’s still seen favorably by a majority.
The problem here seems to be that your “vision” isn’t clear enough, and that’s probably why you wanted to discuss it with others. The good news is that people didn’t oppose your ideas

It’s a bit late in France so i don’t intend to stay much more online(, and you’ve been at it for more than 12 hours), even if i’d be interested in your answer because i frankly still don’t understand you, sry :/

(you must feel powerful to write that, it’s fortunate that the mods only censored one of his comments)

I.d.k. if you’ve heard of reclaim the net, you may be interested to give them a follow, and if you know similar websites/accounts i’m interested, thanks for the thread !
(thanks as well to the moderators for allowing you to speak freely, this should be a basic freedom)

Here’s one more example of censorship i’ve just learned about : I’ve already been permanently demonetized by YouTube and had albums removed from Spotify, this time under a false allegation of transphobia. Felt pertinent to add somewhere.

From https://telegrafi.com/en/estonia-publikon-harten-e-fluturimit-te-tre-aeroplaneve-ruse-qe-shkelen-hapesiren-e-saj-ajrore

« the incursion of Russian aircraft into Estonian airspace was the fourth this year (…) Since 2014, there have been more than 40 incursions by the Russian air force into Estonian airspace »
It seems difficult to avoid :

More details here : https://eaip.eans.ee/2025-10-30/graphics/eAIP/AIRAC-AMDT-07-2024/ENR_ENRC_en.pdf
They weren’t over any lands, and it wasn’t exceptional, probably more linked to the recent u.s. announcement to cut off some security assistance to Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia(, all NATO members bordering Russia). Perhaps some kind of occasion to seek a funding(, $220M,) from the e.u. parliament or sthg i.d.k.

I wouldn’t know how to contradict you, he talked about freedom a lot and that’s why i called him a libertarian, but contrary to Ron Paul, he was against the freedom of : aborting, using drugs, free immigration, being gay or trans(, or at least with the same rights), searching/teaching “woke” subjects(, gender studies, critical race theory, …).
He favored wars, and security-state arguments, so wouldn’t have opposed mass surveillance.

You’re right, he was only a partial libertarian, that is to say, i think, that he wasn’t a real libertarian, thanks for your correction.
He was only 31. Of course many more people died an avoidable&unjust death in the last 24h, and there are still so much hate from everywhere, imperfections give us a purpose i guess.

Even if the rules are rigged since the rich are buying mass medias, i won’t ever support killing ideological opponents, obviously, there’s not enough ideological diversity i.m.h.o., and i don’t like having the same set of rules/ideas on a national or even continental level :

• I don’t believe that abortions are murders, foetuses never met anyone nor have any memories, if any consciousness at all. At the risk of shocking i believe that killing an insect is worse because at least i have no doubts on their consciousness, ideally we should refrain from abortion, although having an unwanted baby can ruin both the parents/mother’s life and her child’s childhood, births should be desired. If abortions “only” murder a potential, then preventing it “murders” the potential of the other child that’d be born in replacement(, and ok, i’ll agree with the Church that it’s not an easy topic, it’s just that no-one has in-utero memories). But i want some cities to ban abortions, while others allow them. I also understand why people thinking that it’s a murder would consider themselves libertarian despite being against it.

• I believe that some illegal drugs make you develop an addiction without giving you much in return, and are taken by people already lost in their lives, while other drugs are wonderful and transform you into hippies, and yet other drugs enhances your performances, and there are still a lot of research to find the most useful drugs. But i want cities banning all of them, and others allowing even the worst ones, and understand why people thinking that all drugs will lead you to a criminal life as a homeless addict desperate for h.er.is next fix would consider themselves libertarian while wanting to preserve their citizens from such poison.

• I could see a problem with immigration in the sense that if more than 90% of french citizens is replaced by, e.g., algerian people, then the policy of our country would most likely change, and we’d feel closer to arab history. Just like polish/italian/spanish/portuguese/… immigrants weren’t a problem since we’re all european now, perhaps that an alliance with our glorious islamic sisters&brothers is the european future, and the same goes for the u.s. with hispanic people, or not, in any case we can’t continue to offer ten times the minimum salary from one country to the other, it’s clearly selfish&unjust. But i want cities to have free borders while other closes them, and understand that some people look at the fertility rates of white people and feel that if the u.s. is mostly black and hispanic then it’d be as if North America’s colonization had been for naught, so they’re libertarian but can’t allow immigration because of its threatening scale.

• I don’t see a problem with other people be(com)ing gay or trans, and even if it was a problem then it’s their problem, not mine. But i want cities banning straight and cis people, and others banning gays and trans, and understand why some people look at the statistics and fear that, i.d.k., that the percentage will climb to 50%, or even 80% and more ? And even so then what would be the problem ? I don’t really understand t.b.h.

• I don’t see a problem with teaching critical race theory or gender studies, how would that destroy our country ? I’m ashamed not to have listened to Charlie Kirk more, i live in a bubble.

• Mass surveillance and censorship will come, despite D.Trump and E.Musk honest efforts. The problem is that the bourgeoisie will want to protect itself from socialist ideology(, or even without it they’d still desire to prevent internal revolts), and will hence resort to more censorship/control against China’s rise, that’s a bipartisan policy.
  Perhaps that androids will make capitalist-owned states believe in some kind of utopia for all(, preventing the cause of revolts in a post-scarcity society for the whole world, without any more wars or desires of hegemony), it’s never lost in advance i suppose.
  Still awful that the only country who didn’t listen to our advice is the one with the best economic growth(, Cuba, Nicaragua, or Venezuela are under sanctions), i sincerely hope that we’re not knowingly keeping most countries poorer/exploited by advices/‘economic theories’ allowing us to maintain an advantage.

What a lame edit, i don’t see D.Trump as worse than J.Biden, they’re both anti-communists, but at least D.Trump favors free speech.

https://youtube.com/shorts/urN56M9hn0I

You can’t be a libertarian fascist, moron.

They’ve accepted the Witkoff plan since May, now they’ve been saying since the end of August that they’re ready to leave the power to independent technocrats, what more could they do ?
They’d probably accept demilitarization as well with enough security guarantees. And then, what more could Israel ask ?

Not sure if you want an answer, but :
If we were on lemmygrad or hexbear it’d be the opposite ? That’s one thing that’s great with Lemmy, there’s no sitewide “moderation” like reddit(, until state censorship laws start invading our internet, which shouldn’t take much longer now, as always in the name of safety).
The members of feddit.org should decide the future of feddit.org, and the members of lemmygrad should do the same.
Similarly for Lviv, Transnistria, Crimea, the Donbass, Kiev, Odessa, Transcarpathia, …

(sry if you didn’t need an answer, i like that you’re against wars and this opposition is a good compass. We(sterners) got as much as we could from the eastern side of the Iron Curtain, and didn’t spare our efforts to get Ukraine as well, i can’t help but see the ukrainian bourgeoisie at work there as well as here, they won’t bite the hand that fed them. Russia fell low, but is raising fast and the “neutral” ukrainians that aren’t in/against either side kinda forgot about China, their news could be full of its amazing progress, it’d give hope, there’s a glorious future for Russia ahead and they could be part of it, in the name of the past. It’d be a loss for the little european union though, who lost its colonies and don’t want to expand in ‘islamic territories’/‘the sole other direction available to them’.)

Or the pro-Europe can emigrate there, and what if they love their lands ? Refusing to allow a referendum(, or to recognize the previous ones,) is the side you’re ending up defending then. Ideally, that’d be a more peaceful(&democratic) way of resolving such problems. I can’t blame Ukraine for choosing power over justice, that’s what most countries do(, exception, or not).
Some ukrainians have chosen Russia, others Europe, so be it.

Well, ideally, instead of having to choose between the european union and the russian federation, we’d all be united in diversity, in city-states with very different laws, and without ever having to fear for our safety(, which is always the n°1 reason we(sterners)&others invoke to be agressive).

I don’t want to annoy you or anyone here, but it wouldn’t be polite to leave your comment unanswered, even if i’m wary of the moderators’ dis-information/censorship.

if South Tyrol wanted back to Austria, and Italy ignored that, it wouldn’t be reasonable for Austria to invade Italy

So what would be reasonable to do in order to respect the will of South Tyrol ?

That’s the problem with Russian “politics”. If it’s not going their way, they will force it through.

Russia waited eight years, to the point that a (relatively )common criticism heard in the Donbass in 2022(, confirmed in Patrick Lancaster interviews on the ground,) was to ask why Russia waited that long before helping them.
How many more years should they have waited according to you ?

Ukraine was improving its military during these eight years, and got closer with the e.u. and n.a.t.o., would it really be wise to give them more time to prepare ?

Petro Poroshenko was the worst president that Ukraine ever had(, even worse than Yuschenko), he did everything he could to escalate the situation, except an invasion because Russia was very clear of its reaction : he forbade them to vote, imposed an economic blockade, banned the russian language and russian medias(, as well as old russian books), and i could extend the list if it’s not long enough for you.

Vice did many good videos if you’re interested, even if they were bought back in 2023 by Soros&others.
Worth noting that, in 2022, the inhabitants of the Donbass fought the pro-european ukrainian army from the east, while Russia invaded from Belarus and fought the ukrainians from the west : both were fighting for the Donbass liberation.

If you know what Russia should have done i’m interested.
You probably know that they gave the Donbass and Crimea less than a century ago, and now they took them back according to the will of the local population because Lviv and other pro-european parts of Ukraine decided to work with them against Russia.

Things would have gone differently if Russia’s population wasn’t concentrated on its western side, or if the 2014 western-backed coup had failed. We(sterners) did everything we could to bring Ukraine on our side, partly to improve our power, and partly to contain/weaken the Russian Federation, that still dares to support countries such as Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, North Korea, Yugoslavia, Irak, Syria, Lybia, …, despite the 1991 disaster(, that made Ukraine join those responsible for that disaster).