Comment on Elon Musk pressured Reddit’s CEO on content moderation
ViperActual@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks agoIf instance owners do not want to vet their users behavior if other instances speak up, the instance that is misbehaving gets defederated from the rest. That’s the power of federated services.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
And all of that is super easy to detect and assumes that the majority of major instance owners are actively fighting this. Just like how free market capitalism ensures everyone is happy and satisfied.
This is not a simple problem to solve. It was a problem in the days of message boards, a problem in the days of digg/reddit, and is still a problem today.
Understand the risks and dangers of what you use rather than just assuming things will be ideologically pure.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Further, since instance owners are just a username…
If my admin got black bagged and replaced by someone else with access to her accounts… How long would it be before I noticed?