This isn't a list of forbidden words, it's a list of forbidden user names. So you can't be pedophile.bsky.social, but you can say the word "pedophile" in a post.

yeah 100%. I am watching someone stream it right now.

I feel like this is as close as I will ever get to being a roman partisan for some gladiator, egging on the emperor to turn his thumb down

Potentially significant ossification of laws and increased bureaucracy, people pulling for emotional and controversial edge cases to the basis on which the entire thing is built. Fewer decisions made in response to immediate circumstances.

I'm on a couple of instances, it's fine for what it is as a reddit alternative, but it's hard to find communities (I guess sub-lemmys?) I'm interested in so far, and some of the instances have kind of bad moderation vibes where they're hyper-aggressive in that mastodon way of assuming users are inherently a threat to the platform.

I think it'd work better if they stayed un-federated beyond pointing to where the largest communities for a given topic reside. I have a password manager I can belong to multiple websites, it's fine who cares, no need to do cross lemmy mod politics.

This sort of thing is becoming more important to most people the more social media gets used for non-government surveillance. For instance, the way the knicks use photo scraping to ban people from MSG that criticize the team or the owner. Uncensorability makes the pseudoanonymity to make those criticisms safely more viable.

The link to lume from the clients page that is