lemmy’s designed to be federated. what the devs do on the flagship instance doesn’t matter. you can just made my own server over rules disagreements. that’s literally why my pleroma server exists

Because of the fact that Lemmy is open source and designed to be federated, the freedom you’re looking for is meant to be found by running your own Lemmy server/instance.

With that kind of openness, it means everyone can have their own server and can run it however they want. It actually lessens any theoretical obligation dessalines’ might have to allow any activity at all on this instance. All admins are free to set any rules that they want; everyone gets their own space.

Nowadays our culture has reached a state where anyone who makes appeals to “freedom of speech” probably shouldn’t have it. Yes, speech should reasonably open, but there are always going to be some things you shouldn’t say or shouldn’t be allowed to say, so making philosophical appeals to something like “right to free speech” is basically the last resort of people who want to engage in bad speech.

Moderation in my humble opinion should be. Many apparently do not quite understand what freedom of speech is. Shouting “fire”, for example, in a crowded movie theater, is not" freedom of speech", but a crime.

And as noted above, let the community owners determine the rules themselves, and let them be in the environment that they have chosen. To do this, you can put your own instance or go to other ones.

If a person comes to the community to shit, attack others, send spam, etc. to make others worse, what kind of freedom is that? Freedom is linked to responsibility. And if he doesn’t understand it, makes people “badly”, he should be stopped. IMHO. (This is what I write about individuals who purposefully come to communities with the sole purpose of making things worse.)

Another conversation about the transparency of all this.