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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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[-] elouboub@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

Are you against instances that speak specific languages too? feddit.it (Italian), feddit.de (German), jlailu.fr (French), feddit.nl (Dutch), feddit.uk (United Kingdom), feddit.dk (Danish), eslemmy.es (Spanish), etc. or instances for specific cities?

Or is it because it's Arabic?

[-] Camus@jlai.lu 3 points 1 year ago

Small correction, it's https://jlai.lu/.

Also, where did you find the invite to that Discord? It doesn't seem to be related to the instance

[-] elouboub@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Also, where did you find the invite to that Discord? It doesn’t seem to be related to the instance

Did you respond to the right person?

[-] Camus@jlai.lu 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, I was asking about the link in your message for jlailu.

The Discord you linked doesn’t seem related to the instance

[-] elouboub@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Oooh, I had no idea https://jlailu.fr linked to a discord! It really was just supposed to be jlai.lu :D No idea who owns the domain but it just redirects you to discord for /r/rance . Must be some jokester.

[-] admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 3 points 1 year ago

No, it's because the proposal for this new instance stems from the Israel/Palestine conflict - it's literally the opening sentence. Whether they're pro one or the other is irrelevant to me.

[-] misaloun@reddthat.com 8 points 1 year ago

It's not. I think you misread what I said, and I already explained to you that it isn't. It's to have an Internet space for Arabs. My mention of the Palestinian cause is using it to motivate people to move over to Lemmy, in light of the censorship against Arabs.

This is not meant to be an anti Israel lemmy. It is an Arab lemmy.

[-] elouboub@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Would you be against a Ukrainian lemmy server too?

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

If it's an Ukrainian anti-Russia server, yes. And for that matter, I'd also be against a Russian anti-Ukrainia lemmy server. Are you starting to see the pattern?

[-] elouboub@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Then I think you're misinterpreting OP's post. They don't want to create a "pro Palestinian server", they want an Arabic server. They mention Palestine because of the timeframe: more active Arabic speakers --> possibly more active Arabic lemmy users. Hence my question about Ukraine.

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