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
You are exactly what every platform on the internet should be… and as a newly registered user, I’m very glad you’re here! Platforms fall in one of two extremes: Either insanely authoritarian and banning you for the slightest offense or difference of opinion, or total anarchy as everyone insults everyone else at every corner… while somehow still being authoritarian in banning you over content even in the later case. It’s rare to find one that moderates enough to guarantee common sense behavior, but not so much as to become the gatekeepers of people’s thoughts and feeling turning some into privileged model citizens and others into enemies that must be wiped out of existence.
I suggest you organize and prepare: The morality brigade and its sex police are already screaming at this server demanding it be blocked by the rest of the fediverse, since of course a minimal sign of modernism and normalcy like not banning fictional art for violating Western Sharia Law is too much for the “normal” internet user. Saw it on Reddit and gave it some correction… ordinary fools like that won’t be an issue, the problem is when they also take over governments change laws and attempt to arrest server admins over their insanity. Running multiple servers / mirrors across different countries is a good idea in cases like this, granted the team can afford it.
Not sure if I’ll be primarily using this instance or Reddthat: The later seems more official and also has common sense rules, then again the official looking ones tend to be the most problematic. Definitely subscribed to a few communities on here, fortunately the two seem to federate fine… albeit I can only see some communities from here over there, any idea why? I’ve been primarily using Baraag as my Mastodon… I take it the two should also be federating without issue.
Thank you for the kind words, we really appreciate that. I can assure you that there’s no danger to us as far as hosting goes. We pay for the server with Monero and use an off-shore hosting company that tells those slimy authoritarians to fuck off. We’re on good terms with the company owner and they even have an account here.
For federation, Reddthat might be blocking specific communities at an instance level. And federation between Mastodon/Pleroma -> Lemmy is still kinda iffy as far as being in a workable state. We’re already defederated by a lot of instances, but it seems to have minimal impact to our user participation here.