So, since we’re starting to get some actual traction, even being posted about on the hard R. I figured we should probably have a little post explaining the instance and it’s goals.
What Burggit aims to be
Burggit aims to be a platform for Free Thought and Expression. Our goal is to have a place where people can freely and respectfully express their ideas/opinions without fear of being censored because they decided to use the wrong terms/wordings.
We will also not immediately suspend a user for their first infraction, though we will definitely warn them and won’t be afraid to take action of it continues.
What Burggit is not
We are not another Kiwifarms, Gab or Voat!
While we’re fine with people posting offensive speech and imagery, we won’t allow them to use their right to “Free Speech” as a weapon against the overall health of the platform. Threatening, Berating, Dogpiling, Doxxing and otherwise being complete and total assholes to other users will not be tolerated.
Having a different, unpopular opinion on a sensitive topic is fine, but there’s absolutely no reason why anyone would not be able to express those opinions respectfully. And if you can’t express those opinions without being shitty to other users directly, that’s not something we’re going to be putting up with.
If we believe that a user of ours is causing problems for our instance or other instances, we will not hesitate to deal with them.
But what does it mean to be shitty?
For clarification I’ll add some examples of behavior which would be deemed not okay.
Please note, this is not an exhaustive list.
- Calling out death to a group or individual
- Targeting another individual/user regardless of reason (Discussing something in a way which could be percieved as rude doesn’t count, some people argue passionately and that’s okay.)
- Going out of your way to cause trouble with other friendly instances
- Attacking someone’s character, motive, or some other attribute of the person making an argument rather than addressing the substance of the argument itself. Also known as Ad hominem’s
Yes, please, remember this!
Every platform accepting loli also had an ongoing case of ‘freeze peach’ syndrome, and eventually got drowned by far right lunatics.
That’s definitely not going to happen here. I find those types to be really insufferable. Culture war nonsense from either side is annoying as it is, for that matter.
I’m new here, but I’ve been looking around and I haven’t noticed any far-right flavored lunacy. I really appreciate that, and I’m curious. Do you take any specific action to achieve that? Or do you think it is more of a natural outcome of burggit/lemmy culture?
Part of it is probably because we have rules against berating/attacking others. Another part is that it’s because we are a loli friendly instance which is basically the right wing’s kryptonite. We were actually defederated by a crazy right wing instance over this, it you can believe that.
But yes, if someone’s being a complete shithead towards others or a group of people, then they’re not welcome here.
everyone who uses burggit is either gay, trans, or a map which is the actual right wing kryptonite
Which is just jaw dropping considering far-right lunatics and their patriarchy are most obsessed with seeing “threats to children” in every stupid thing, yelling that porn is satanic and fiction featuring underage character should see artists executed. Of course the leftist “liberals” have taken to copying hardcore conservatives in a lot of things, without even seeing or admitting the resemblance to their long lost brothers with which they’re allegedly at total ideological war. What a time to be alive.
What is ‘freeze peach’ syndrome?
Near as I can dig up, it’s a bastardization of the words “free speech”. From what I can tell–and I could be very wrong–essentially, it mocks those that point out someone (or themselves) have the right to free speech–more specifically, it’s used to mock people that use it as a sheild when asked to stop saying racist, sexiest, homophobic…you know what, let’s shorten it to basically being a bag of dicks, at other people or groups (of course, it’s also used to mock those who have controversial options but aren’t being assholes about it, I’m sure…).
Again, could be wrong here and if I am and somebody wants to correct me, go for it!
You seemed to have explained it pretty well, at least to my understanding of how the term is used. 👍
As someone who’s avoided platform surfing until now, what’s the deal with those 3. Trumpets? Nazis? MAPs?