Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.

• Wanpieserino@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • IonAddis@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m just curious if spaces such as that even exist, and if they do, what they lead to.

    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.

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    • Wanpieserino@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Corpo social media has the no mod feeling. They only really moderate to avoid lawsuits and things like harassment are rampant

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  • tfm@europe.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      it can help against that if you disable registrations after you got your account

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      • tfm@europe.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        How would this help against defederation?

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