Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.
Wanpieserino@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Met my wife on a little internet forum called 9chat. Right before it disappeared.
These little spaces on the internet were quite nice to be. Always seeing the same people. It has a different feeling.
Decentralising social media will have its positives. When one tries to control public opinion, people can flee to another one for example.
tfm@europe.pub 1 week ago
That’s why we have to make sure the Fediverse is the future!
Wanpieserino@lemm.ee 1 week ago
It’s been 1 week since I found out about Lemmy, liking it quite a bit.
I wonder, is there an area on this social media that are extremist pro free speech?
Such as, okay you’re being a total shithead, I still won’t ban you.
I’m just curious if spaces such as that even exist, and if they do, what they lead to.
IonAddis@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I don’t know about lemmy since I’m old enough to not care to go looking for that, but I can speak in generalities from a few decades back.
So, I ran an old-school forum in the late 1990s/early 2000s. I found that a complete lack of moderation leads to bad actors essentially ruining the vibe. Basically, there are human beings (and bots plied by state actors in this day and age) that will happily exploit a fully-unmoderated forum and fill it full of awful stuff.
Now, bad mods are awful, power-tripping and all, and lots of regular people who have never run a community of any sort have had run-ins with mods that have the HOA Karen mentality, but having no mods can ALSO kill a community if it gets big or noticed enough to draw in outsiders, because you end up with the bullies running roughshod over everyone else, and changing the vibe. And if the vibe gets too gross, you lose the decent, cool members because they’ll fuck off elsewhere and do their thing elsewhere because your community is too full of bullshit and crap.
Wanpieserino@lemm.ee 1 week ago
I can imagine that spamming/constant harassment/advertising/etc can ruin a space. Especially when it can be automated.
Perhaps it would be better with temp bans and that moderation is automated in order to prevent bias.
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
Corpo social media has the no mod feeling. They only really moderate to avoid lawsuits and things like harassment are rampant
tfm@europe.pub 1 week ago
You could simply start your own instance. Nobody can delete your content or ban you there. But get ready to get defederated from other instances.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
it can help against that if you disable registrations after you got your account