Any Arabs (or others) here who want to cooperate creating an Arabic Lemmy, given the recent Palestine events? (reddthat.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by misaloun@reddthat.com to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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Every major social media is censoring anti-israel or pro-Palestine content. This may be a good opportunity to convince Arabs to move over to lemmy, where only we control the content moderation.

For the record, the lemmy won't be Palestine only. I just think it'll be the reason people will move over.

The reason I ask for others to help me is:

help advertise to other Arabs to bring them over
someone to register the stuff in their name. Unfortunately, I am an immigrant in a country and have been interrogated by them before (on bogus grounds). While what I'm doing is not illegal, they have their eyes on me and I am paranoid they'll give me trouble again regardless. I can take care of the technology side of the hosting and the initial costs (hopefully donations cover the rest). Since it will be on your name, moderation and the like will be your decision, but I will just want to make sure initially that we are on a similar page.

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[-] misaloun@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago

I don't think it is harmful to give people the option to spaces primarily speaking about local matters and concerns, and primarily occupied by local people. It does not take away the other spaces.

We are already in an age where it is almost impossible to undo globalization, and nothing I do will prevent those who frequent mixed and international spaces (or more accurately Western dominated spaces) from doing this. It is only giving them a place that didn't exist before for content they couldn't post or read elsewhere.

Most of the world already has this. I don't think Arabs having it will be harmful.

[-] admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 1 points 1 year ago

I am not convinced, but hope to be mistaken.

Peace be with you.

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