Yeah I think this comes down to centralized moderation in general. The fediverse helps, but you’re still ultimately picking a server to have control over your identity and data and to police your behavior.
I don’t like twitter-likes, but blueskys version of moderation seems a bit better, although the bluesky corporation still has more influence than I’d like (even if it is technically avoidable).
Honestly, I think what would be best is a sort of “network of trust”, where you just see posts from friends of friends, and you explore the network by adding friends. It would eliminate bot spam immediately, and limit virality (which lowkey I think hurts people generally unless they’re making money off it being an influencer, which I also don’t like enabling) but makes discoverability harder. You’d need to find a way for ideas to spread easily while limiting any specific posts’ reach
Honestly, I think what would be best is a sort of “network of trust”, where you just see posts from friends of friends, and you explore the network by adding friends.
the problem is that closes you in a bubble and severely hinders your ability to discover new people, topics, or points of view, which is what the network like lemmy is about, i think.
I see a checkbox to turn on federated voting in settings. Clicking and holding a vote arrow brings up 4 options: upvote (federated), upvote (local), downvote (local), and downvote (federated). I guess federated votes may or may not be seen outside piefed? /shrug
I’ve been banned from a community here on Lemmy because a mod didn’t like my voting, so don’t think Lemmy is immune.
I got banned for “abusing the report function” from one instance.
Then I watched a mod war as several mods started banning/unbanning over the course of a few days.
I just made a new account on a different instance.
I guess reporting obvious transphobia was a hot topic about two years ago to some mods.
Yeah I think this comes down to centralized moderation in general. The fediverse helps, but you’re still ultimately picking a server to have control over your identity and data and to police your behavior.
I don’t like twitter-likes, but blueskys version of moderation seems a bit better, although the bluesky corporation still has more influence than I’d like (even if it is technically avoidable).
Honestly, I think what would be best is a sort of “network of trust”, where you just see posts from friends of friends, and you explore the network by adding friends. It would eliminate bot spam immediately, and limit virality (which lowkey I think hurts people generally unless they’re making money off it being an influencer, which I also don’t like enabling) but makes discoverability harder. You’d need to find a way for ideas to spread easily while limiting any specific posts’ reach
the problem is that closes you in a bubble and severely hinders your ability to discover new people, topics, or points of view, which is what the network like lemmy is about, i think.
I’m told one of the up sides to Piefed is that it anonymizes voting.
Used to, but then no one wanted to federate with them because it made moderation harder, so they got rid of it.
I see a checkbox to turn on federated voting in settings. Clicking and holding a vote arrow brings up 4 options: upvote (federated), upvote (local), downvote (local), and downvote (federated). I guess federated votes may or may not be seen outside piefed? /shrug
I wish Voyager supported this, or if it does I wish I knew how to turn it on!