That’s the same thing with a different label.

Let’s stick to one topic for now.

If lemmy was as popular as Facebook then exactly the same thing would have happened. Lemmy is designed not to have the top down control which the article says Facebook should have used to hide posts.

You can’t blame Facebook for something if you support an alternative where it wouldn’t even be possible to avoid that thing.

If you’re willing to acknowledge that we can move on and you can try and say in simple terms what you think meta did to obstruct the ICC, try to be accurate and concise.

It’s funny to me how many big flare-ups and popular issues have been about defederating or controlling other instances but we’ve not really had a single popular event where users work on anything together to benefit community.

Individuals have made tools but there’s not been calls to action and mass cooperation events for anything beside silencing unpopular groups. No community design discussions devising and implementing tools or features, no group efforts to catalog or document or display useful data…

I don’t know if it’s just that people here haven’t considered the possibility of doing something positive or that outrage about others is just so much more compelling

The thing is your article blames meta for not doing something that would be impossible on lemmy by design. Meta didn’t act to silence messages calling for violence but there is no mechanism to do this top down on lemmy only by defederating instances or individual communities/instance admin banning posts. Exactly the same thing could happen here, if the user base ever got large enough.

You think lemmy doesn’t have algorithms?

Personally I believe that yes open source should be created by governments for the global good, that open source should be created by people studying PhDs and that community commons projects should be part of schooling with students learning how to use and contribute to them.

However the main brunt of open source should be created by people who simply want it to exist because we will always outnumber and outperform government workers and students.

Personally I would love to see a world where contributing to community projects is something everyone does as part of their life, not only because it’ll create more open source but because I think it’ll be a much healthier community if we stop seeing everyone else around us as competition and start seeing them as fellow workers in the project to improve life for all.

Yeah it’s open source, 3rd party tools existing is kinda the point really. If these people care so much then they should be working on making tools to address the issue, or funding someone to do so.

Well it’s not really just about making you happy, the project is about displacing corporate controlled media so that community projects and social movements can flourish allowing us up create a better world for all.

I myself have very elitist and isolationist tendencies but I think it’s important to set them aside somewhat for the common good.