Shush, let an old man dream.

Retired, so I finally have time to finish the dozens of personal projects that I’ve started in my first 36 years.

And at the same time, you rephrase it to imply something that was nowhere in the original sentence.

“Don’t make me ban you” doesn’t necessarily mean “Don’t say anything I don’t like” but maybe just “Don’t post anything illegal” or “Don’t make the experience worse for everyone else”. I fully agree that the original phrasing is too vague which is why I’ve provided a whole list of more specific suggestions.

You are the one who brought up censoring. The person you replied to just said “consequences”. Others not liking you and not wanting to talk to you anymore is a consequence.

Your comments in this thread sound a lot like you not wanting us to say anything you dislike. I respect your opinions and I would fight for you being allowed to share them. I just think they’re wrong and disingenuous.

Someone who disagrees with you and calls out your hate is not a censor.

As an abstract concept and a logical conclusion, I would say it’s neither good or bad.

What is bad is when people interpret free speech as being allowed to hurt others without consequences. And in my personal opinion, most people who criticize a lack of free speech fall directly into that category.

If you’re allowed to say everything, then as a logical consequence I’m also allowed to say everything. Including “You are wrong, you are rude, I don’t like you and I never want to talk to you again. Please leave.”

Note, this is just an example. I don’t really want you to leave. Yet.

Free speech means that you can not be punished by law for your opinions. It explicitly does not mean that others are required to listen to you or even like your opinions. Just as you are allowed to hold a controversial opinion, they are allowed to disagree with you, argue with you, walk away or show you the door if you’re in their house/community/instance.

Some inspiration for what to include/how to phrase the rules:

• “Be nice to each other”
• “You are allowed to share your opinion. Others are not required to like it”
• “Accept that others might have different opinions from yours, just as you would want them to accept that your opinions are different from theirs”
• “Moderation is based on how you say things, not what you say”
• “Free speech has legal limits in most jurisdictions. The instance owner may be forced to remove illegal content even if they agree with you.” (for example, saying that all billionaires should be killed may or may not be a valid opinion but it may be considered incitement and depending on where you live, instance admins can get in trouble for not deleting it)

Bad: most people who use the term “free speech” don’t understand what it means and what it doesn’t mean. Have a look at this handy xkcd.

In a “no time to explain” situation: most of my friends and family

If they actively refuse to explain: maybe my 2-3 closest people whom I trust they have a good reason for that kind of secrecy.

Do you notice something? Your comment is still there. Nobody has removed it. Nobody has left a rude comment. So far, nobody has even downvoted it (as far as I can see from my instance).

Most of the time it’s not about the opinion but about how it’s presented. As long as you’re respectful and accept that someone else might disagree with you, almost no lemmy instance will „censor“ you for something like that.

For video editing I would highly recommend DaVinci Resolve. So far I’ve only used it on Windows because I haven’t had any need for it since my switch but it’s available for Linux as well.

What kind of opinion are we talking about? Can you give an example?

Well, then you have to get more specific what kind of opinions are getting censored. I can’t find a single modlog entry related to your account.

Freedom of speech means you can say what you want. It doesn’t mean others have to listen or like it.

If you don’t like moderation, it’s probably best to run your own instance.

So what do I do when I need to get something done on a deadline? VM? Dualboot? Just give up?

Please don’t interpret that as an attack, it’s a serious question. I would love to fully move to linux. I’ve put Arch on my laptop about a month ago as an experiment and overall it works great. But every time I need to be productive, I hit a wall. Especially with photo editing but even for software development (mostly C# and C++), Windows 10 + WSL feels like the better choice.

Well, are you a developer?

I am. I have written software, both open source and commercial, for almost twenty years now and the most important lesson I have learned in that time is that developers alone don’t write good software. You need to listen to UI/UX experts, testers and user feedback to make something that people actually want to use.

Just for maybe an hour or so, haven’t had time for more. It seems a bit better but still too different from everything else to assume people can „just“ use it instead of the solution they are familiar with.

Gimp really needs the kind of in-depth UI/UX redesign that blender got with 2.8.