IninewCrowFeb 5, 2025

The greatest thing that social media ever did for humanity was in its ability to allow all of us to talk to each other in an open platform.

Those private corporate platforms have slowly been eroded and controlled to only waste our time and designed to keep us all angry, afraid, anxious and confused.

Open decentralized social media is bringing us back to that era 20 years ago when social media was just starting and people just talked and openly discussed the issues of the day with one another. It doesn’t matter what kind of platform we have or can create, as long as it is decentralized and controlled by people, everyone will always find value in it because it allows us to talk to one another. The greatest thing I’ve ever found in taking part in the fediverse was in connecting to like minded people who want to talk about the important issues of the day without all the distractions of advertising and without having having to give up my privacy or security and have my identity sold to the highest bidder.

Show threadfuzzy_adFeb 5, 2025

Open decentralized social media is bringing us back to that era 20 years ago when social media was just starting and people just talked and openly discussed the issues of the day with one another.

Unless the mods remove your posts.

Show threadsamus12345Feb 5, 2025
Then start your own server and post whatever you want.
Show threadauraithxFeb 5, 2025
Doesn’t really work once spaces are established. Most of reddits problems aren’t the admins, it’s the volunteer subreddit mods which function just the same as lemmy.
Show threadenkersFeb 6, 2025

Remember, there were plenty of rounds of moderator purges on reddit, especially when subs would lock down in protest. Any mod with ethics and a backbone would’ve been shown the door. So I think it’s fair to say a lot of the moderation problems were at least in part caused by the admins.

At least on Lemmy, different instances have different ethoses, so communities can be more in line with the instance they’re on, and there isn’t this need for absolute centralised conformity.

Show threadauraithxFeb 6, 2025
Yeah there was still problems with the admins. But 95% of the problems people encountered day-to-day and what killed discussion and the vibe was virgin subreddit mods.
Show threadCarbonBasedNPU
How do you solve that though?
Feb 6, 2025 at 10:05pmWeb
Show threadauraithxFeb 7, 2025

Idk. Ban from communities after negative karma threshold with an automatic vote weighted by users subreddit karma to appeal? Just the first thing that popped to mind though sure there’s better ways. Matrix was working towards something iirc last i checked.

As it stands you can get blocked for life from a significant portion of lemmy for saying Trump is worse than Kamala would’ve been.

Show threadCarbonBasedNPUFeb 7, 2025
If that was in place you could get banned from all of lemmy for saying that but it wouldn’t even have to come from a mod just someone with enough free time to make a couple thousand accounts. I personally like the way one of the discords im in does it where it is basically a draft from the mod team to be head mod and leads to significantly less power tripping because they will be gone in the next month.
Show threadauraithxFeb 7, 2025
Hence weighted by reputation.
Show threadsamus12345Feb 7, 2025
If you (rightfully) believe that, then any place blocking you isn’t somewhere you want to be, anyway.
Show threadauraithxFeb 7, 2025
Huh, why? Because of shit management?
Show threadfuzzy_adFeb 7, 2025
You pay mods and make them have rules.