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Natanael@slrpnk.net 1 month agoYou’re basically suggesting bluesky style label services
And no that can not be the only solution avaliable. You have probably never seen a well moderated community, or at least not participated in one for long
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
By making the default view a chaotic mess of free expression would spur the need for efficient and easy to use self-help user-centric moderation tools.
The worse it really is, the more people will be motivated to figure out, basically clicking “subscribe” to a blacklist filter. It could make sense to even have a default suggestion blacklist that are strongly consensus base as one of the first thing the users is told.
The alternative is the currently happening reddit-equivalent centralization which makes lemmy a pointless, far less popular reddit clone.
There is no other alternative.
If posting in lemmy.ca/c/books gets you zero views then nobody will post there instead of lemmy.ml/c/books which will get 10k views. So lemmy.ml/c/books will gets posts and grow and lemmy.ca/c/books will stagnate forever. Once in a a while the hegemonic community moderator will push their corruption so such egregious level that a tiny amount of users will revolt and create a 2nd community and it will get maybe 5% of the viewership of the big community.
This is just the cost of freedom, the user HAS to participate in moderation and moderation has to be a collective effort. The alternative is handing over your thought patterns to an unaccountable anti-misinformation ideological cabal and they will shape your reality into whatever shape they see fit without you even knowing they exist.