For the unaware, Lemmy is a Fediverse alternative to platforms such as Reddit and Tildes. I've been using Lemmy as one of my main social platforms for the pa...

I made a blog post on my biggest issue in Lemmy and the proposed solutions for it. Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.

  • deafboy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    You can’t force collaboration

    You can. There’s always the lowest common denominator. If there’s a guy peddling viagra pills in the astronomy community, it’s clearly offtopic. Most mods would flag the post regardless of their political or ideological affiliation. That takes care of the obvious spam.

    • cooperation = advantage
    • noncooperation = no advantage nor disadvantage

    instances that have different views and rules on moderation

    And that’s ok. They will do as they always did. Hide posts, or users that violates their terms of service

    • cooperation = advantage
    • noncooperation = no advantage nor disadvantage
    • deafboy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      Additionally, you could even automate certain decisions. Let’s say you are a pro-monarchy activist instance, and there is a post with title “Digest the aristocracy”, containing pictures of peasants playing football with the king’s head.

      You could’ve easily set the following rule: if mods from both hermajesty.co.uk and puppiesandkittens.org flags the post, AND freedomforpeasants.com does not, auto-flag the post here as well.

      In this scenario, even the “enemy” instance is making it easier for you to make the decision.

    • ombremadEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      “You can force cooperation”. Wow. A true fighter for free software, you are. Sure, let’s use that as a new catchphrase.

      (But if it was to be actually enforced on any actually decentralized network — a concept that you still have a hard time understanding, apparently — there would be forks up the ass from such an autoritative move. Just go on Reddit, that’s what you’re looking for.)