A few examples include s*x questions on askreddit, “this” comments, nolife powermods, jokes being more frequent than actual answers
A few examples include s*x questions on askreddit, “this” comments, nolife powermods, jokes being more frequent than actual answers
Fr. The crying about defederating this or that I see from all kinds of instances when browsing everything is already giving me a bad taste. If you don’t like something, block it your own damn self. Jesus fuck. You can block communities. You can make your own personal instance just to black/white list instances themselves for now if you want to be that widespread with blocks. You can probably find a tool to mass block as a regular user and not need that. You could just browse by subscribed and never see anything you didn’t add again. So many things you, an individual, can do to curate your own shit without affecting every other user on the instance.
This is about the moderator class justifying their power to set the bounds of allowed discourse. Empowering the users with the means of decide their own curation algorithm settings would disempower moderators. And since the moderators can speak louder than users, they have more influence on the design direction.of Lemmy.
In a properly decentralized system, the default view would be everything and you would apply your preferred filters on top.
Communities themselves wouldn’t be moderated, users would decide their own moderation actions publicly and other users would subscribe to moderation action feeds of people they agree with. Or maybe our own content curation algorithms would determine the moderation consensus of the whole userbase and take action on the client side using that to decide what to display.
Current Lemmy falls way way short of any of those features.
The difference with lemmy is that you are more than welcome to set up your own instance to become a moderator or a part of the “moderator class” as you call it. There’s literally nothing stopping you from doing that if you have an issue with the “bounds of allowed discourse”. Then you would have your default view be everything as you could select federation with every other instance as you claim would be the ideal “properly decentralized system”.
If I may ask, why do you believe that a properly decentralized system would default to everybody having to filter out things like hate speech on their own?
Because deleting stuff is easy
Undeleting stuff is impossible
If you let other people delete stuff for you, you hand over control of your thoughts to anonymous third parties
Any instance that hosts r/coontown2.0 or similar can get fucked in my opinion. Defederate immediately. If they want to play they can have standards.