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Notice how TheCradle never failed a fact check? All those sources you listed have failed fact checks. That’s the difference.

I’m under the impression that they can still downvote but you won’t be able to see it.

Yeah, but then what?

So you have confirmed that you have a fan club that likes to downvote you. What would you even do with this info?

Unlimited genders on the first world.

During the COVID pandemic we decided a 9/11 every day was fine, that has consequences.

The flood of new users overwhelmed the existing culture for online forums and the ability to enforce existing norms.

That’s not really true, in hindsight.

The real problem was that the tools for enforcing existing norms and protecting forum culture didn’t exist yet. Look around today, though, and you can certainly find forums and boards and other online spaces where a distinct culture exists and its norms are enforced.

I do! It’s why I thought it was important to highlight - I’m not too concerned about mod tyranny, per se, but I am concerned about servers going down.

Redundancy has been so important recently with the DDoS attacks, and even as that subsides it’s still definitely an important infrastructural perk that federation offers. It’d be a shame to lose that to centralization.

You aren’t wrong, but also a lot of the communities I subscribe to aren’t on .world so I still have content.

Normally a DDoS would mean I have to go find something else to do!

It’s amazing how federation makes it so those of us on different instances don’t even notice when .world gets DDOS’d

Of course there’s garbage you don’t want to see in a community. But the difference is there’s an actual human being I entrust to the task of removing it (the moderator). If I don’t like how a community is moderated, I can go to another community. Mods make these calls for the sake of quality and topicality of their particular community, not because of some ulterior motive.

Unless those moderators are getting paid, you are just benefitting from unpaid labor and externalizing the costs of running the community onto volunteers.

That’s why I’m not against algorithmic moderation. The work itself is never going to be paid labor unless social media is nationalized, so it must be automated.