Well, this place is rapidly becoming like reddit. I’ve just been banned by a hypersensitive fuckwit. Shouldn’t wastes of a wank like that be forced back to reddit where they belong?
Banning should be banned. What is the point of this place if it just replicates the dregs of reddit?
It could be disabled in code really easily. Like in a day. Its just, if you do that you offer nothing of value that mastodon doesn’t already have. Communities would be no different than hashtags.
It also puts to much power and responsibility into admins. I prefer to be mostly hands off. I think that’s the best admin style
Even gab allows groups to moderate their members.
The whole link aggregator algorithm relies on the fact that posting is more difficult than reading. 9/10 people never post or comment. They just read other people’s stuff.
So by having votes and moderators you delegate the task of curating content.
Its why some people prefer now to search reddit rather than google. You often get better results. You are crowd sourcing brain power.
You need more than one type too. You need shit posting to start on twitter style free posting or 4 Chan. Then it gets picked up by reddit, wolfballs, hacker news type sites. Maybe it ends up on Facebook idk I never go there anymore.
Someone might summarize ideas or culture in a TicToc video.
It would just be a difference of UI, like isn’t mastodon restricted to a few characters like twitter and you can’t do long posts or comments?
well to me ultimately decentralization is centralization at a local level, so I’m still putting trust in admins like masterofballs
I have yet to see a completely “trustless” system, like with bitcoin that ended up deviating from the original intent of crypto, so people forked bitcoin cash, then people tried to attack bitcoin cash with bitcoin SV and later bitcoin ABC. Point is, with each fork it required putting trust in like miners and developer teams, even while maybe it was “decentralized”.
yeah if there was no community-specfic modding I guess that would be the only difference of here over mastodon, but the different formats and limitations are needed even when a lot of the tech might be the same I guess
Telegram groups are a good example of just non stop un moderated posting.
You open up a group and see 15,000 missed post. Loads of them are just straight up lies. Like
Its a useful type of social media but not the kinda content organizing I’m looking for.
I would like to build a light weight mastodon like social media service in rust. Just for learning’s sake. Just have other priorities ATM.