I am not blaming the rules, I am saying they aren't breaking them.

As an admin, I don't want to be an authoritarian. That is a choice that I am making purposefully. I could choose to ban whatever I dislike, but this whole Lemmy thing can't work if every admin just inserts their political viewpoint into everything.

It is not up to me to decide what makes a good conservative, or democrat, or socialist, or car enthusiast, or whatever else. If someone wants to create a community where only content that praises Cthulhu is allowed, then that is their prerogative. All I care about is that they stick to my instance rules.

Everyone is equally welcome here. If you think that this particular Conservative community is biased or too heavily moderated, then you can always start your own - in fact I encourage you to. You could run a conservative community on HC and moderate it however you want. What I will not do is ban other people for you.

You are spreading lies, HC does not put up with nazis. You will notice that nobody can seem to find any nazi content, despite claims that we are literally a nazi bar.

At least you're saying it outright.

I suggest that most people in this thread are ultimately upset that we don't take their side. It's a bit ironic on a federated platform.

I am not helpless to moderate, I don't want to moderate communities. Are you suggesting that I should be an authoritarian admin? I offer an instance where people, such as yourself, can start their own communities and run them as they like.

Both of those are links to external articles. These links are posted on content aggregator platforms for the purpose of debate. Some people will agree with them, others, like you, will argue against them. That is fine, and not a violation of any rules.

I've never been called a sealion before.

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I think this is a good example of something we will have to agree to disagree on.

Where on HC have you seen anything that even remotely resembles doxxing? We will ban anyone with impunity for anything of the sort. Where have I said otherwise? I have always pointed out that we have rules around content, and everyone has to agree to them when joining HC. Personal attacks in general are not tolerated, let alone calls to violence or doxxing - that's an insane take to suggest otherwise.

You are making some very disingenuous correlations.

I don't like it, but I'm not there to moderate communities. What I care about is my instance rules being adhered to. This is why I point out that anyone is free to start their own community and moderate it as they see fit.

There is no universal way to moderate a community, you are going to piss someone off no matter how you do it. If I got personally involved, then all communities would be my communities - that's really not good, nor feasible.

He is definitely a Trump fanboy, I really don't care about Trump that much - it's OK to see things differently. I personally cringe at that community too, but they are not breaking our rules. My personal views have nothing to do with it.

I think it is an insult to anyone who has had to endure the horrors of nazi concentration camps, to make that comparison so loosely. They were nothing like what is happening today in America, not even close.

I'm not going to dive into actual US politics (are Republicans nazis, are the Democrats nazis, etc) since I'm not even American and that's a cesspit I have no business in. Depending on who you talk to, someone else is always the nazi. What I can say is that our instance has clear rules on the type of content we accept, just like everyone else, and we certainly do not tolerate "nazi" content, such as calls for violence, racial discrimination, ultra nationalism, etc. You will not find anything that resembles that.

On a human level, I agree with the points you make. I certainly wouldn't want you to subject yourself to content you don't like either, and Lemmy has come a long way to give users control over what they see. All I'm pointing out is that HC would welcome anyone under the same rules. We are no more a Republican instance than we are a Democrat one. I can't control if people agree or disagree with you, but I have no tolerance for personal attacks, for example. You will find that starting a community on HC would really be no different than starting a community somewhere else.

If people legitimately wanted HC to be a different instance, then they would join it and transform through their own content, to the point where it becomes majority. But people do not want that, it's easier and more convenient to point the finger and accuse us of being baddies.

I'm not going to lower myself to respond to your personal insults in kind.

You accuse our instance of being "nazis" but yet can't point to any example of nazi content. Accusations without proof are meaningless.

You're saying it's a "nazi bar", so surely there would be nazi content everywhere that would prove your accusation.

I'm saying it's not a nazi anything. Can you point to the content that makes you think otherwise?

Can you point to which content you believe is nazi?