Every major social media is censoring anti-israel or pro-Palestine content. This may be a good opportunity to convince Arabs to move over to lemmy, where only we control the content moderation.
For the record, the lemmy won’t be Palestine only. I just think it’ll be the reason people will move over.
The reason I ask for others to help me is:
- help advertise to other Arabs to bring them over
- someone to register the stuff in their name. Unfortunately, I am an immigrant in a country and have been interrogated by them before (on bogus grounds). While what I’m doing is not illegal, they have their eyes on me and I am paranoid they’ll give me trouble again regardless. I can take care of the technology side of the hosting and the initial costs (hopefully donations cover the rest). Since it will be on your name, moderation and the like will be your decision, but I will just want to make sure initially that we are on a similar page.
The main issue I see is that there may not be enough people on lemmy that speak Arabic well enough to moderate and have the technical capability to host a server.
I think it’s a cool idea, but I probably won’t put something in my name that I can’t effectively moderate myself, and I’m guessing many others have the same opinion. This is especially true when there are crackdowns elsewhere, because bad actors will go wherever they are tolerated.
Good luck though! And my heart goes out to everyone on both sides of the conflict.