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
    • Burger@burggit.moeM
      2·
      1 year ago

      I made an attempt with the LemmySauceNao bot but I just couldn’t get it to login to save my life. It’s written in C# so it probably doesn’t like Linux I’m guessing. It builds in dotnet core. It gives me a “Not Found” error when trying to access the /api/v3/login endpoint. On the Server’s end it treats it as if the user doesn’t exist in the logs so some text input is getting dropped somewhere.

      I feel like if I got it working it’d be a pain to keep it working with newer Lemmy versions, so I dropped it. If someone else wants to maintain a solution, they’re welcome to it. But preferably it’d be something that doesn’t use crappy Microsoft shit.

      • Burger@burggit.moeM
        1·
        1 year ago

        I’ll add that I’m willing to host it, but as long as the burden for maintaining it doesn’t fall on me. If a Lemmy update breaks it, I don’t want to have to be the one to debug it. I just want to defer to the maintainer and have them debug it on their end and release a fix for which I will pull. I’ve got enough on my plate as it is running this site.